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...went to school for half the day and the other half was spent working with our students to build a new school. The first two months our spirits were high, the weather was relatively cool, and there was almost no visible evidence of our labor. We built a gravel road, dug holes in the ground for building supports, and made the building supports out of steel rods and steel rings...
Sandbags & Gravel. The U.S. Defense Department, which uses Okinawa as its major offshore supply depot for troops in Viet Nam, has an inventory there of $250 million in military hardware, but nevertheless it intends to spend another $13.8 million in Asia this year for supplies that would take too long to come all the way from Stateside. Factories in Japan and Korea in the meantime are turning out hundreds of thousands of combat boots with thick rubber soles and steel plates to protect soldiers from both jungle and booby trap. The Koreans are tailoring 750,000 uniforms for the Vietnamese...
...pumps and sugar-mill machinery, while in other Asian countries factories are busy sewing pajamas for Vietnamese war refugees. A Korean construction firm recently won a $5,000,000 contract to dredge five Vietnamese harbors. Taiwan is contracting to ship $2,000,000 worth of two different kinds of gravel, one to be used in building runways and the other a special variety that is used in water-filtration plants. Carrying the goods has meant cargoes for small ships that ply the area, since most large freighters arriving in the far Pacific are already jammed with materiel for Viet...
...showcase village. Passing Marine patrols and their frequent guests were greeted by smiling "hello-okays" from the hamlet's neatly dressed children. Ap Quang Nam's market bustled with black-pajama-clad women, hunkered down to argue prices. One band of men and women sifted gravel to sell to a Danang construction firm-the village's latest self-help project. Each day Navy medical corpsmen held a clinic for boils and bruises, passed out soap, administered an occasional injection...
...railroads really want more passengers [Dec. 24], let them first replace their grumpy, gravel-voiced conductors with genial gentlemen and P.A. systems. Second, let them stop charging $5 for meals that the airlines give you without charge...