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Last month it did. In Jacksonville, N.C., the Onslow County school board mailed 3,000 tuition bills for $245 per child to parents of children attending its schools. The invoices were sent on the grounds that the parents were nonresidents of North Carolina paying no state income tax and employed at Camp Lejeune, one of the largest Marine bases in the U.S. Though nearly four of every five residents of the county depend on the Marine Corps for their livelihood, Impact Aid funds there decreased 77% in five years from $1.2 million in 1976 to $267,000 in 1981. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Stars, Stripes and Tuition Bills | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...race to put the first birds on the table is frenetic. This Glorious Twelfth, the Onslow Arms in the Surrey suburb of West Clandon dispatched a helicopter to the Heriot moor south of Edinburgh, and 18 still warm grouse were rushed to a London-bound plane. At Heathrow Airport, a fleet of three Ferraris sped the precious consignment to a nearby heliport, where a trio of off-duty Red Devil paratroopers and two choppers were standing by. The Devils jumped into the restaurant's car park, where they were met by chefs in running shoes, who sprinted with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Britain's Guns of August | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

...Beach. After the aerial show, the President lunched aboard the big carrier, then took to his whirlybird once more, landing on Onslow Beach, below the Outer Banks, where he was joined by the Shah of Iran. Through the afternoon, the VIPs observed a well-rehearsed attack on the beach by five battalions of helicopters and seaborne marines, equipped with napalm bombs, heavy artillery, and Ontos (the latest armored antitank vehicles). After the beach had been captured in a deafening final act, the President exclaimed: "Isn't that terrific!" Later, as he boarded his Washington-bound jet, the erstwhile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Overnight Cruise | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

...chemistry, then to classical Greek and psychology, and eventually the ministry of the Church of England. He was curate first in Barnet, a London working class district and later in a South England middle class area, Eastbourne. When he next went as vicar to St. Paul's Church, Onslow Square, London, he at first found only 25 people in the parish and faced demolition of the church; now after seven years 500 pack the services each Sunday. 90 per cent of his parishioners are under...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: Quiet Evangelist | 2/15/1961 | See Source »

Hollywood Opening Night (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Autumn Flames, with Onslow Stevens, Maria Palmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Aug. 13, 1951 | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

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