Word: citizen
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With that, Murray applied his definition of loyalty to the case of J. Robert Oppenheimer: "It was reasonable to expect that he would be particularly scrupulous in his fidelity to security regulations. These regulations are the special test of the loyalty of the American citizen who serves his Government in the sensitive area of the atomic energy program. Dr. Oppenheimer did not meet this decisive test. He was disloyal...
...Spaniard had entered. Life as a stateless tennis amateur was not easy. Drobny moved to Australia, then the U.S., always broke between matches. When a wealthy Egyptian tennis fan offered him a job and a chance to play all the tennis he wanted, Drobny became an Egyptian citizen, ultimately developed his own profitable export business...
Basically, Oppenheimer's case was what he had outlined in his earlier, eloquent statement to the AEC (TIME, June 14). He had been a "fellow traveler," an active Communist fronter from late 1936 until around 1942, but all that was behind him. He had been a loyal citizen, working hard for his Government ever since he went to work on the atomic bomb in 1942. To support their case, Oppenheimer's lawyers had called in an impressive list of character witnesses. Notable on the list were men who had worked above Oppenheimer, including some who had a measure...
...James B. Conant, United States High Commissioner for Germany, former president of Harvard University. Conant still subscribed to a statement he had made about Oppenheimer in 1947: "A more loyal and sound American citizen cannot be found in the whole United States...
...corporation lawyer and a proud Baltimorean. Last fall, almost singlehanded, he worked the deal that brought the St. Louis Browns to Baltimore as the Orioles, thus ending the city's 51-year exile from major-league baseball (TIME, Oct. 12). But now a new crisis agitated Good Citizen Miles. Having regained baseball, Baltimore stood to lose opera...