Word: servicemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Provide, through the U.S. Office of Education, technical guidance, limited subsidies, and other aid for schools wrestling with integration problems. ¶ Authorize federal operation of integrated schools for servicemen's children when legal wrangling over segregation closes any schools in areas heavily populated by service people. ¶ Grant the Attorney General power to subpoena records for any election involving federal officeholders; require all state and local officials to keep such records for three years. ¶ Set federal penalties (five years, $5,000) for flight across state lines from any state's investigation of school or church bombing...
...hills and joined Raul's column. The two worked together but lived apart, with Vilma's quarters chastely protected by four guards and Raul's posted order: "Please do not pass through here." Together they shared some lively experiences, including the kidnaping of 47 U.S. servicemen and civilians (TIME, July...
Cosmic Cooking. But Classroom quickly exceeded its strictly academic goal. The first network educational TV class of any kind, the show is already approaching the ratings of later-rising Dave Garroway's Today. Its 47-state audience now includes thousands of high school students, housewives, plumbers, executives, servicemen and even 500 San Quentin cons who happily find that physics does not a prison make. One 14-year-old boy on a Colorado ranch races forth before the show to catch it on his school TV set miles away. When the show conflicted with their devotions, the sisters...
There was one other pleasant chore for the President before he drove to his Gettysburg farm to spend the New Year holiday: the presidential gift to 1,100 White House employes, including the crew of the Columbine III, naval personnel from Camp David, motor-pool mechanics and servicemen who guard the presidential helicopter. Assembling at the White House, each staffer received a print of a new Eisenhower oil painting titled Deserted Barn-a weathered red barn with a ragged hole in the roof and a rusty old pump and a small wagon standing in a weed-rank yard. The President...
...stems from his year in the army. He was a military misfit, spent months in jail. When he got out, Sine was fighting mad. ''I took up judo to get even with those s.o.b.s if I ever met any again. I hate all military paraphernalia, blustering ex-servicemen wearing medals, and by extension, every kind of cripple, however blameless...