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...American presence is felt in ways other than the military. In Korat's swinging nightspots (ranging from the Pizza Palace to the Playboy Bar), crew-cut G.I.s dance with Thai girls in skintight trousers and bouffant hairdos that glint with Helene Curtis spray (a top PX item despite the fact that no American military dependents are allowed in Thailand). Ubiquitous transistors thrum with American pop tunes (current favorite: Love Potion No. 9), and such examples of American cuisine as cheeseburgers and chicken-in-the-basket now grace the menus in Udorn. The U.S. Army's Ninth Logistical Command...
...which a truck can sink to its door handles. On the perimeters, the marines and infantrymen live like soldiers on perimeters everywhere-primitively, with pup tents, ponchos and C rations. The airmen at Danang boast big airy tents with screened windows and solid floors, a new PX and mess hall. Most of the 173rd Airborne and Big Red One troops at Bien Hoa now have hot meals and floors under their tents...
...Sorry, lady," said the guard outside the U.S. Air Force PX in Madrid. "The rule says no slacks allowed." The rule had been imposed in deference to Spanish propriety on orders from the commander of the U.S. Military Mission, Major General Stanley Donovan. Clad in grey flannel slacks, the lady, Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, wife of the U.S. ambassador, and a priestess of high fashion in Washington when her husband was the State Department's Chief of Protocol, sheepishly stepped aside and let Mrs. Donovan herself-clad in the regulation skirt-go in to buy the golf balls they...
Convicted of selling a PX-purchased tape recorder on the black market, Baldwin was sentenced to ten months in a Turkish prison, followed by a 21 year stretch of village life in Kusadasi. Undaunted, he set about learning Turkish and making friends, tackled the port town's problems with the energy of a squad of Peace Corpsmen. Kusadasians dubbed him Kemal, "The Perfect...
...Kenneth Baldwin in Utica, N.Y., 30 years ago, he enlisted in the army in 1957, won an award as the "outstanding soldier of the regiment." In 1958 he was shipped to Turkey and assigned to a U.S. communications center in Ankara. When he bought a tape recorder at the PX and resold it to a Turkish citizen, Baldwin broke Turkish law; when he sold a second tape recorder for a pal, the pal backed out of the deal, and Baldwin qualified for a court-martial for "larceny." At his army trial, he was sentenced to a year's imprisonment...