Word: citizen
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...giant dinner and a Life magazine sponsored motion picture production will mark the birth of the Citizen's Advisory Committee to the City Council tomorrow night in Memorial Hall. The dinner is sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce...
...first decision (TIME, June 25), the court unanimously declared unconstitutional Article 113 of the public security laws, which requires police permit for signs and posters. Then, in rapid order, the court struck down several other powers dear to the Italian police, among them confino (the power to banish citizens to remote areas without trial) and ammonizione (the power to restrict the freedom of movement of a citizen whose actions the police find suspicious...
Pulled Its Weight. Marc Rojtman came to the U.S. in 1938 to establish a branch of the family-owned Marshak Diesel Locomotive Co. near Paris. Before he could get started, World War II broke out, and Rojtman became a U.S. citizen, served with Army Intelligence for 30 months. After the Germans destroyed the Marshak works in their retreat, Rojtman decided to go into the tractor business on his own. "All a locomotive is is a tractor," says he, "and I have been in the locomotive business all my life...
...judgment on the most recent incidents which he termed "a disgrace to Democrats, a disgrace to Republicans, and a disgrace to the nation." But his latest statement at Little Rock carried his firmness, reserved by most politicians for the North, deep into the camp of the Citizen's Councils: "The Supreme Court ... has determined unanimously that the Constitution does not permit segregation in the schools... I believe that decision to be right. Some of you feel strongly to the contrary...." This statement was no doubt aimed as much at Northern newspaper readers as at the Arkansans who happened...
There is little enough parking space without the University helping matters by making night-time parking in the streets impossible. They shrug off all suggestions of alternate side parking by noting that it is illegal and that we must be good citizens and uphold the law. They ignore the fact that Cambridge residents are rarely fined for overnight parking and add insult to injury by levying fines which are almost three times as high as Cambridge's. The Administration explains that the higher rates and stricter enforcement are necessary because Cambridge fines are too low and too rarely enforced. Just...