Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinary citizen has long since silenced his talk of freedom, placidly accepted the status quo. Whispers a worker: "We get along on $40 a month, plus C.U.-the initials of co ukradnete (what you can steal). This cheating, chiefly from government warehouses or government stores, and what the regime calls hooliganism" are the only emotional outlets. Teen-agers annoy old ladies in movies, wind up hard-drinking rock-'n'-roll sessions by jeering at, sometimes battling, cops in the street. The stirrings of intellectuals and the riots of youths have flowered into rebellion in Hungary and a fight...
Surrounded by newsprint in a storage room at Ohio's Lima Citizen, 350 stockholders perched attentively on rented chairs last week to hear the first progress report on the daily that 1,100 Limaites had pitched in to start (TIME, July 15). For the owners, ranging from the president of Lima's telephone company to a 13-year-old Citizen carrier boy. Publishers James Howenstine and Sam Kamin had nothing but good news. Founded on $300,000 to fight the 25-year-old Lima News after crusty old Raymond Cyrus Hoiles and his Freedom Newspapers had turned...
...Citizen has built a circulation of 25,000, while the News's has dropped 50% (to 17,000). In the first three weeks of November the Citizen ran 65,093 in. of local, national and classified ads, while the News carried only 39,346 in. Said the Citizen's Business Manager Wayne Current: "Never before has a newspaper stepped in and taken the lead in national advertising in so short a period...
Even more important for the Citizen's survival, said Publisher Kamin, is its owners' duty "to see that apathy does not creep into Lima." Said he: "We have sought to build a paper that the community can be proud of. We are here to do a good job of publishing a newspaper, not to carry on a feud...
Howard Fast is very slow off the Marx. When he joined the Communist Party in 1943, the world had already been treated to the Moscow purge trials and the Nazi-Soviet pact, and in his successful novels (Citizen Tom Paine, The Unvanquished) he had already tried to hoist the Red flag retroactively over the American Revolution. He "saw the Communists as the bravest and most skillful fighters for man's freedom." Now he says, "I was mistaken," but it took him nearly 14 years-until Khrushchev's mid-1956 "secret report" of Stalin's "paranoiac blood lust...