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...saying "Michael Harrington discovered poverty, and Lyndon Johnson bought it" seems to be coming true. We are for a real war on poverty. It is true that capitalism, will not make poor people rich, or even comfortable and that the only real answer to the problems of poverty (sweat shops, lack of skills, technological unemployment, etc.) is a socialist society where the resources are used in the interest of all, not just of a small capitalist class. Nevertheless, the war on poverty is important in our immediate struggles...
Building to Stay. If "the golf course" is a triumph of sweat and ingenuity, Cam Ranh Bay, abuilding 190 miles north of Saigon, is the manifesto of American engineering. Fifteen miles long, five miles wide, deep enough for any ocean vessel, rimmed by smooth, sun-blanched beaches, Cam Ranh Bay was probably the world's most underdeveloped great natural harbor. Until, that is, four months ago-when the 4,000 men of the 35th Engineer Group went to work...
...marched off by the victorious Nationalists to be shot, and the sound track quotes French Novelist Georges Bernanos: "They seized them each evening in remote hamlets, at the hour of return from the fields. They departed on their last journeys with their shirts still wet with the sweat of their backs...
...university have been hard at work for the first time in their lives. All volunteers, they are the first members of a "Summer Youth Program" sponsored by Saigon's Catholic, Buddhist and other educational organizations, and modeled after the U.S. Peace Corps. With sleeves rolled up and sweat rolling down, the students are building privies, schools and roads in 18 Vietnamese provinces...
...with such nauseous effusions as "how rave-making" or "supremo!" All of Rotten's cast labors mightily. But on recent evidence, England's humor of idiosyncrasy is dead or in extremis, for nothing so dampens the spirit as to see the muse of comedy working up a sweat...