Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carpet slippers, on any one of dozens of planes, Dulles, world citizen, would pull out a whodunit from his worn briefcase ("The detective must put his mind to work-my mind is relaxed as I read of his deductions"), or, as he often did, make plans in mid-Atlantic to stop off for a swim at Bermuda...
...with his answer. Government, said he, has a proper duty to take steps to help special groups that have suffered economically, and such help is given in housing, urban renewal, farm support programs, rural electrification and other ways. But "the effort here is not to give one group of citizens special privilege or undeserved advantage. Rather it is to see that equality of opportunity is not withheld from the citizen...
...weeks ago De Gaulle quietly issued a series of drastic decrees placing on the army's shoulders full responsibility for preparedness against atomic attack and "subversive ideological war." Under these decrees, if the President officially declares a "state of alert," every citizen of France between 17 and 60 automatically becomes subject to mobilization and military justice. The task assigned to each individual -military, civil defense or industrial-would be determined by army-run "zones of defense," each capable of carrying on even if communication with Paris or all other zones...
Crackling Night. Lebanon's rebellion subsided in September, but bitterness remained in the mountains. Quarrels over grazing rights erupted into a series of gun fights in which a leading citizen of Jaafra and a seven-year-old Kobeyat girl were killed...
...last week slipped in a sly decree among its last-minute emergency measures. From now on, every town hall in France will have a "Doomsday Book," available to the public, that states precisely the amount each taxpayer contributes to the treasury. As a Finance Ministry official put it: "A citizen may notice that one of his neighbors has a rather high standard of living," then, on leafing through the Doomsday Book, he may "express some astonishment at the discrepancy between his outward signs of wealth and the amount of revenue declared." Of course, added the official, there is no intention...