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Impact School Aid. It began in 1951 to provide aid for school districts encompassing military bases, which sent servicemen's children to local schools without paying local taxes. The program was expanded over the years so that schools in all but a handful of congressional districts are now eligible for the subsidy; any school district can collect if only a few federal civilian or military workers live there. Last fiscal year the program covered 2.4 million children and cost $799 million. Some of the biggest beneficiaries are among the richest districts in the nation. OMB recommends that funding...
...front of Sardi's so her face would become familiar to producers. A big break came when Critic George Jean Nathan wrote that Lauren was "the prettiest theater usher" of the 1942 season. Off Broadway the spotlight was on Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo. Bacall danced with servicemen at the Stage Door Canteen, but her mind seems to have been exclusively on star wars...
...miles from the station. Adrian and Johnnie, two hikers I had met by chance the day before, were leaving the ranger station as I set off. When I first caught sight of the water we ran into three other hikers who were having trouble finding a crossing--two American servicemen stationed in Germany and a German friend of theirs in the Sierras for a vacation...
While hostility from some servicemen seems unabating, a recent poll indicated that two-thirds of the men at Pendleton felt perfectly comfortable with the opposite sex serving on the base. Observes Corporal Smith: "When they get to know you, the men are nice. Those in our barracks look out for us." There also appears to be a growing respect for women's martial abilities. Private David Fisher, 19, a member of Shirley's platoon, confesses: "I felt that this was no place for girls. But after they outshot me on the firing range, I changed my mind...
There was plenty of good will on display for the delegation of eight U.S. Congressmen and their aides, headed by Mississippi Democrat Gillespie V. ("Sonny") Montgomery. The Americans were on a six-day tour of Viet Nam and Laos, investigating the fate of 340 U.S. servicemen still listed officially as missing in action during the Viet Nam War.* At the first talk between Vietnamese officials and Montgomery's contingent, Deputy Foreign Minister Phan Hien announced that the bodies of eleven of the M.I.A.s had been recovered, and at week's end the remains were ferried home. Montgomery concluded from...