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...country are there industrial-design stars in the European manner, and the transpacific parallel is probably not coincidental. Says Hiroshi Kashiwagi, a professor of art at Tokyo University of Art and Design: "In the wake of World War II, we learned American culture through the designs of goods at PX's -- by way of lamps, shoes, clothing -- not through the English language." And often they learned the banal dialect of mass-market American design...
...group of eight split into three teams; two of them rode in vans loaded with unmarked cardboard cartons while the third left in a 17-ft. outboard motorboat. The van teams entered the huge U.S. Marine base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., through different gates and joined forces at the PX parking lot. They stopped briefly at Second Division headquarters, then drove to an on-base junior high school, where hundreds of unsuspecting students were attending classes. The boat team, meanwhile, sneaked undetected onto the base on the New River and, according to plan, faked engine trouble along "Generals...
...imagery of the visitors' PX: the white gleam of refrigerators and stove enamel, the iconography of GE and Hoover, so utterly different from the traditional dimness of the Japanese house and the mandatory drabness of wartime, with its austerity colors and nocturnal blackout. On a popular level, the war had caused an immense disenchantment with traditional Japanese architecture, wood and paper: "weak" materials, which burned. Concrete and steel were the substances of a victor culture, and the huge termitary cities of Japan were rebuilt with them...
...ROTC board at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Military salaries, while not always competitive with those paid for comparable jobs in the private sector, are more than respectable, especially considering the wide array of benefits that are available: free medical care, room and board, and PX privileges. Monthly pay for a recruit is $574; for a sergeant with four years' service it is $906; for a major with ten years' service it is $2,305. The services' slick $175 million-a-year advertising campaign promising adventure and fulfillment has helped win over...
...notes, tend to travel in their own olive-drab military trucks. Officers, at times accompanied by their wives and children, will occasionally enter local shops or offices, but they rarely, if ever, use public transportation or patronize local restaurants. The soldiers and their families generally shop at their own PX...