Japan, but his redoubtable lungs could You'd crive not cope with the cold there; trying to race after a brief hospitalization for a respiratory ailment, he collapsed after two hundred yards. One of the featured competitions of the AficrOlympics was the Miicronesien AU- Around, a focal variation on the decathlon, with in spearfishing, underwater for the summer of 1971, on Koror, was a bitter disappointinent to the pro- spective Palauan hosts, who had hoped “OME wes x 7 wa So wy ~ Dr port es contests swimming, and coconut-tree chimbing. The cancellation of the next MicrOlympics, which had been set if you could si to add to the roster of events blowgun- shooting and war-canoe racing. Some of the things that the Peace Corpsmen have been deing in Micronesia are what any Americans could have done twenty-five years ago. The Japanese built a seventy-mile road all the way around Ponape, but the iskiund gets heavy rains-—there is an average annual fall of three hundred inches in the interior—and by 1945 the bridges and culverts were in such disrepair that the Ponapeans had.to use boats to get from one part of the island to another, This situation continued for twentytwo years. In 1967, a handful of Corpsmen, aniong them a scientist named A Minolta Autopak? with its vari- able filming speed feature, can show you--in excruciating slow motion -- what everybody's been telling you is wrong with your swing, But that’s just the beginning. With the Aulopak’'s unique features and system of accessories, you can create Cartocns out of children’s drawings, or make arose seem to bloom in two minutes. At po ste wi zo Cc Sc ad Start to see irfe di Wayne Judd, who had had some ex- perience in construction, persuaded the Ponape District legislature to apprepriate sixteen hundred and five dollars for read repairs. In three months, the i Corpsmen, employing logal labor, burke three bridges and seven culverts. When Judd finished his Peace Corps sunt, he wentto Haswan fore year, and then returned to become head of an organteation called the Ponape “Pransportation Board, Now known simply as PLT LB., it sa contracting ageney controlled by Micronesians, It has a staff of twentyfive, and half a million dollars’ worth AN LAR Atasle so el. pe describe Eee of construction projects under way or recendy completed—-among the latter ie a post office that after hours serves as a social center for young people. Mlost of the PVT.B.’s energies have been cancentrated, however, on undertakings outside the district center, where the majority of the Americans live. “Our t i 7 work is for the peaple, and not to sup- port the Amenean base of operations,” Judd told me. Most of the Peace Corps volunteers in Micronesia have been engaged in teaching, often in a program called Teachines guage Favedish as ona Second foan- Inoan area with so omy hi- ferent tongues, it will make sense to have a lingua franca if self-government | is attained. Some of the Americans, though, have apparently tended to thik So edroordinary is inis hqueur oat PCIevess -tys i vened barack12 ox. od ty ; “2 aS L |