Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Naturally, this need increases as the world becomes more complicated. In a recent full-scale reevaluation of ROTC, two Dartmouth professors assert that with advancing technology, the concept of the trained reserve, hastily mobilized, citizen army is outmoded; the only realistic alternative now is a professional armed force in being, obviously necessitating good officers. Coupled with Professor Samuel Huntington's idea of officership as a profession, a policy of high-calibre training for college men to make them able officers becomes a necessity...
...many a mainland citizen, the new proposals will seem a grab for the best of both worlds, stirring grumbling that Puerto Rico should be all the way in the U.S. or all the way out. Muñoz argues that the relationship is not fixed, but is intended to develop maximum freedom with the "permanent association." Congressional hearings will probably start next month...
...really concentrating on cars this year-cars that look well, run well, and are available to the ordinary citizen." So said an exhibitor last week of the biggest auto show ever held in the U.S. The Third International Automobile Show filled Manhattan's Coliseum with more than 600 cars from 68 automakers in nine countries, and as always the crowds clustered admiringly around the rich and the racy. Britain's famed Rolls-Royce showed off a new Silver Cloud convertible ($19,350); there was a 150-m.p.h. Aston Martin sports sedan ($9,870), a new French Facel-Vega...
Clutton-Brock earned the Negroes' respect and friendship when in 1957 he helped organize the Southern Rhodesia branch of the African National Congress. When congress organizers were branded "agitators," he said: "It is the duty of every citizen and Christian to be an agitator for justice, righteousness and truth...
...citizen of Bolivia I would like to apologize for the stoning of the U.S. Embassy in La Paz. On the other hand, I demand an apology from your magazine for your controversial article about Bolivia. Your article reflected the still-remaining thought in the U.S. that friendship can be bought...