Building: Luxurious Exile

At the Marines' Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, many a leatherneck's family has been living for months in cramped trailer quarters. For exercise they can stroll out to stare wistfully at 123 Marine houses that for nine months have needed only a day's work to make them ready for occupancy. At Nike villages in Texas, families have been prevented from joining their missilemen for nine more months for lack of housing. At Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, the winter winds whip through the half shells of some $11.3 million...

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