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Miraculously, it all worked perfectly. Thanks largely to the efforts of Major General George W. Goethals and his predecessor as chief engineer, John Stevens, the canal was not only completed on time, in 1914, but for $23 million less than had been estimated by the U.S. in 1907. By the time the steamship Ancon sailed through the canal in the official grand opening on Aug. 15,1914, World War I had just erupted and the celebrations were subdued. Even so, the canal was?and is?one of mankind's most memorable achievements, the moon shot...
JUNK FOR SALE says the sign in front of the three-bedroom house for which Leigh DuPré pays the Panama Canal Co. $169 a month. A clerk in the company's rate office, DuPre, 40, is going home with his wife and four children after nine years in the Canal Zone. "We don't want to live where there is no U.S. jurisdiction," he explains simply. Janet DuPree (no kin), 33, a kindergarten teacher in the zone and granddaughter of one of the workers who helped dig the big ditch, betrays the festering bitterness of many...
...either the U.S. or Latin America. "If away you long to steal/ to a real/ Shangrila/ If your heart you wish to heal/ visit Panama," runs a song in Panama Hattie, a Cole Porter musical of a generation ago. For 3,500 American employees of the Government-owned Panama Canal Co., 9,000 G.I.s and 21,100 other family members, Uncle Sugar provides everything from commissary-and post-exchange privileges to bowling alleys and movie houses, swimming pools and tennis courts. At the same time, Zonians cannot own their homes or go into business for themselves within the zone; they...
...Zonians' basic objections to the new treaty range from chauvinistic to sentimental to mercenary. "There is no Panama C,anal," says the message on the bulletin board of the Panama Pilots Association in downtown Balboa. "There is an American Canal in Panama...
...getting more like a mirage with every passing day. There is no future, and the younger pilots know it and are getting out." Most of the 202 pilots (only two are Panamanian citizens) doubt that they will be paid adequately after Panama assumes that responsibility -or that the canal will be efficiently...