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...time being, Marina and her children are living with Business Agent Martin's family. Outside is a parked car with two Secret Servicemen, who, with two other pairs, stand guard 24 hours a day. But the worst seems to be over. "I think," Marina says, "I am more happy now." She helps with the cooking and cleaning, plays with her children, takes long evening walks. She likes Dallas, wants to stay on there, become an American citizen and resume her work in pharmacy. Remarriage? "No! Please!" she cries. "I have crazy letters from men who want to marry...
...Americans abroad lead a more comfortable life, or are more self-consciously American, or engender more bitterness in their host nation than the colony of 36,000 U.S. citizens who live and work in the 553-sq.-mi. Canal Zone. Ten thousand U.S. servicemen are stationed at seven Army bases, two airfields and a naval base. Four thousand civilians work for the U.S. Government and its Panama Canal Co., tending the locks, running the railroad and providing the many services needed by a community that includes 20,000 dependents. Military personnel come and go. But the civilians are permanent fixtures...
...Ph.D. Even the raw recruit now spends a third of his time in a classroom; the general gets the equivalent of two or three years of graduate study. To keep everyone learning off-duty as well, 33 correspondence schools provide 2,500 mail-order courses to 1,000,000 servicemen and servicewomen around the globe...
Welter of Waste. Military learning is also balm for the unemployment problem: at least 60% of what the services teach is directly applicable to civilian jobs. Hundreds of thousands of servicemen go back to become everything from auto mechanic to bacteriologist to weatherman. Almost 100,000 men now in the services have been raised to the equivalent of a high school education since they entered-a figure equal to about a tenth of the nation's annual school dropout rate...
...however, lights have burned year round across the silent white desert that surrounds the South Pole. As new equipment and technology have helped to subdue the hazards of the hostile land, the U.S. and nine other nations*have set up some 35 permanent research stations, where scientists and servicemen who "winter over" en joy most of the comforts of home as they seek to unlock the secrets of the earth's ice-age continent...