Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elsewhere the world of sport was worried by such momentous questions as "How can an ordinary citizen corner a couple of tickets to the World Series?" and "When are the Brooklyn Dodgers going to move?" But in Clearwater, Fla. (pop. 25,500) last week, 25,000 fans had something much more immediate on their minds: they had 22 teams (and as many as 13 games a day) to watch in the softball championship of the world...
Late in August, Secretary of State Dulles made a serious error when he committed himself to the policy that "every American citizen has an obligation to be responsive to United States foreign policy...
...nine-year campaign of terror and violence aimed at chasing them out of the country. They were jailed, beaten, run out of town. Their schools and churches were padlocked, sometimes burned and dynamited, and it was decreed unlawful for any Protestant missionary to minister to any Colombian citizen. Last week, with Rojas five months gone, there were signs that the anti-Protestant pressure was easing...
...late Senator McCarthy, to sniff the stacks for anti-Americanism. Politely, Director Dr. Ian Forbes Fraser explained that his library was private, showed the pair the door. On Fraser's shelves are volumes to turn any McCarthyite red. When the State Department nervously banned the fictional biography Citizen Tom Paine, by the then Redolent Howard Fast, from its overseas informational libraries, Fraser ordered six extra copies to handle the requests of curious Frenchmen. Summarizes Librarian Harry Goldberg: "Our aim is to present all aspects of American literature and civilization...
...this division between the physical and the psychological view that ran through most of the 700 papers read at the congress. Psychiatry's grand old man and Zurich's first citizen, Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, 82, was on hand to define the issue. Stooped but hale and quick-witted, Jung reiterated his longstanding position on the psychological side of the fence. His view: the emotional disturbance comes first and causes the chemical disturbances that accompany schizophrenia...