Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, teachers have beseeched parents to lend a hand in schools. Lexington, Mass. has found a way to put them to work. Last week, when Art Teacher Paul Ciano wanted technical advice, all he had to do was flip open a fat new directory of citizen volunteers. He picked out a professional painter, a package designer and an M.I.T. professor of sculpture-all enrolled in a unique campaign to prod outside talent into the town's classrooms...
...article that appeared in TIME on Aug. 3 in which you state that Norman Douglas was asked to leave Capri by the police. You casually defame the memory of a great man, who not only was never asked to leave the island but was appointed an honorary citizen. He was buried on Capri with full civic honors...
...Communist Spy Klaus Emil Fuchs, 47, onetime head of the theoretical physics department at Britain's Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, who slipped atom-bomb secrets to Russian agents, was caught and imprisoned in 1950. Released 2½ months ago, Fuchs flew to East Berlin, was made a citizen of East Germany almost as soon as the wheels hit the runway...
...Margareta Hagerty, 30, daughter-in-law of Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, went to court in Alexandria. Va., walked out a U.S. citizen. Daughter of a Swedish minister, she arrived in the U.S. in 1951, went to work as a governess in the home of a Swedish U.N. delegate, married Marine Lieut, (now Captain; Roger Carl Hagerty in 1955, is the mother of Jim Hagerty's two grandchildren...
...Scot with a murderous temper, the boudoir morals of a tomcat, and a colossal ego. He toadied to his superiors, fought with his peers, and would never give credit to his juniors when he could claim it for himself. He fancied himself as a freedom-loving "citizen of the world," yet ended up drawing his sword for a despot. But John Paul Jones could certainly do one thing: he could fight a ship as have few men before or since-and Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, U.S.N.R. (ret.), dean of U.S. naval historians (13 volumes so far of the History...