Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of the school-board elections in Milford, Del. last week, the area's most notorious citizen, White Supremacist Bryant Bowles of the N.A.A.W.P., learned just how effective all his demagoguery had been. One four-man slate, opposed by Bowles, had firmly announced that it would stand by whatever decision the U.S. Supreme Court makes on desegregating the schools. The other slate had flatly declared itself in favor of "continued segregation," willy-nilly. The winner: the second slate which got 7,647 votes to their opponents...
...Memphis, Carter was in a battle with the other extreme. Appearing before the Memphis Public Affairs Forum, he denounced the pro-segregationist Citizen's Councils (TIME, Dec. 20) as "dangerous and unholy [organizations] unworthy to be called American ... a kind of uptown Ku Klux Klan." In the middle of his speech, Carter was interrupted by the wailing of sirens and the arrival at the auditorium of fire engines, police squad cars, a Navy shore-patrol wagon and two ambulances, all summoned by false alarms to break up the meeting. Cracked Carter: "The only thing missing was the Coast Guard...
...that there are worse things than war. René Fülöp-Miller, 64, was born in a corner of Europe long and bloodily disputed between Hungary and Rumania, saw war when he fought with the Austrian army in World War I (he is now a U.S. citizen). Gifted and versatile (Rasputin, the Holy Devil, The Power and Secret of the Jesuits, Triumph Over Pain), he has now written a strange, heavily symbolic, sometimes embarrassingly earnest novel. The Night of Time is a kind of Kafkaesque parable. But Adam and the men of Hill 317 have a saving...
Delancy nodded. "There is no satisfactory answer for the traffic problem," he continued. This statement brought another irate citizen to his feet...
...occasionally poked a finger into worldly affairs. In the '30s he asked the Polish government to pardon draft dodgers. In the '50s he urged "the little minority of intellectuals" to refuse to testify before congressional committees, on the grounds that "it is shameful for a blameless citizen to submit to such an inquisition...