Word: citizen
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...system, which keeps Democratic primaries and therefore state government firmly under the thumb of county woolhats. Four times suits to abolish the system have been instituted; each fizzled before the Supreme Court. Last week Atlanta's plucky Mayor William B. Hartsfield launched a determined fifth try. As Private Citizen Hartsfield, the mayor filed a Federal Court suit protesting that while Atlanta's Fulton County (pop. 473,572) contains 14% of Georgia's population, the county-unit system allows it only 1½% of the state's voting power and is thereby discriminatory and unconstitutional...
...Daughters. Reason: Ilse, daughter of German refugee parents, has never been naturalized. With unsinkable illogic, National D.A.R. President General Mrs. Frederic A. Groves explained the ban: "It is natural to assume that a good-citizenship award in a high school in the U.S. would go to a citizen of this country...
Died. Leopold H. Lorraine, 61, a Habsburg archduke, grandnephew of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, who renounced his titles to become a U.S. citizen; an extra in Hollywood, later a maintenance man at the American Screw Co. plant in Willimantic, Conn.; of cancer; in Willimantic...
...must also judge the facts they find. The paradox was pointed up last month at congressional hearings by FCC Chairman John Doerfer, who remarked that as an administrator he should be out talking to people, but as a judge he should not. Under the fact-finding process, every citizen has the right to be heard before the agencies-and thousands use it. Lawyers have made an art of dragging out a case (at fees up to $500 a day) to their clients' advantage. Nonscheduled North American Airlines was able to hang on for two years, at a profit...
Witty Sting. Wunderkind Ustinov was born in London, a descendant of a titled Russian who was exiled in 1868. (Peter's grandmother owned the largest caviar fishery in czarist Russia.) His father, a German citizen, was a journalist, spent 14 years as press attache at the German embassy in London. Peter drifted out of school in his teens and into London cabarets, where his mocking monologues kidded diplomats and aristocrats, prima donnas and generals. At an irreverent 18, he enchanted Londoners by mimicking-in ersatz Swahili-an addled bishop of the Church of England who had stayed too long...