Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lusty economizers of the House Appropriations Committee, who had just brought down 7% of Charlie's defense budget with one savage $2.5 billion cut. To starboard, scudding elusively above and below the horizon, lay sleeker seamen such as Scientist Vannevar Bush, an old Pentagon hand, and Distinguished Citizen Nelson A. Rockefeller; they thought that Wilson ought to save money and step up efficiency by making some sort of single service out of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Astern of Wilson even the signals from the flagship were unclear after Dwight Eisenhower said that tighter interservice unification perhaps could...
Salazar has run his country for the past 24 years. Though "every citizen of this country has the opportunity to nominate himself or decide who deserves to represent him," Nasser said, there would be just one "National Union" ticket and Nasser would decide who went on it. Anybody who had been convicted by his Revolution Tribunal and courts as a "public enemy," and anybody who had been subject to such acts of "administrative custody" as being watched by the police could be, and last week was, "deprived of the exercise of his political rights" and could not stand for office...
...true, Seattle at first accepted Beck with the greatest reluctance and mostly because it seemed a choice between him and the Red-led waterfront boys of Harry Bridges. But once Seattle did accept Beck, it went on to cloak him with all the dignity and authority of a leading citizen. Few unscrupulous men have woven themselves so tightly into the business, social and civic fabric of a city...
Sovereignty is not a word often used in connection with a Soviet citizen. But First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev used it scornfully last week to describe the action of "Comrade Maximov," chairman of the Zhdanov Coke-Chemical works, who had built an 8½-ft.-high slag-block wall 3,000 ft. long (cost: $50,000) to "defend his sovereignty" against the rival Azvostal factory. Although Russia's vast socialized industry works for one boss-the State-competition between ministries, divisions and plant managements is as intense and as predatory as anything to be found in the worst Marxist...
While the papers and the public are fascinated by an event reminiscent of the glamorous gangsters of the 'twenties, a few citizens are deeply and rightfully upset. Whether Costello invoked the Fifth Amendment legally or not is a question for the courts, but it is apparent to anyone that his constitutional protections from search and seizure without warrant were ignored by the New York police. Costello's life should be protected and his possible crimes prosecuted, but his constitutional rights as a citizen should be preserved...