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...Suspects fleeing across state lines to avoid prosecution for bombings or threats to bomb shall be guilty of a federal crime. ¶Federal assistance may be provided for the education of servicemen's children where local schooling is disrupted by integration disputes...
Born of war, the Stars and Stripes, Armed Services-directed daily newspaper of U.S. troops abroad, was not designed to survive peace. But in the era of the cold war, with some 700,000 U.S. servicemen and attached civilians scattered around the globe, it has survived with unprecedented peacetime proportions; in separate Atlantic and Pacific editions, it has a circulation of 211,000 in 37 countries...
TIME embarked on international publishing during World War II, when it began large-scale distribution to subscriber servicemen in military theaters throughout the world. Editions sprouted wherever printing facilities could be found, were delivered to military personnel in a variety of sizes and shapes. In 1941 we launched the first plane-delivered magazine, TIME Air Express, which later became TIME Latin America. In 1943 TIME Canada was founded...
...tough; in theoretically classless Russia, the officer caste enjoys high status and perquisites. To induce veterans to settle in the labor-short central Asian "virgin lands," the state is offering free land, low-interest loans, and a bonus of 600 rubles ($60). Last week the first ex-servicemen arrived in the harsh pioneer land of Kazakhstan, where the Communist leader was fired recently after a quarter of the wheat crop went unharvested for lack of workers...
...world there are dozens of fungi that infect man, animals or the soil, reported the U.S. Public Health Service's Dr. Libero Ajello, and their distribution changed radically during World War II. Species that had been confined to the Asian and Australasian tropics found new hosts in U.S. servicemen on Pacific duty, and Korean orphans carried one species to Europe. Dermatophytology (the study of fungi that infect the skin) may give a valuable assist to anthropology, Dr. Ajello suggested, because a variety prevalent in eastern Asia occurs also among Central American Indians, supporting the theory of an eastward migration...