Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protect their property and their lives, the soaring crime rate is perhaps matched only by the rising curve of paranoia. Already, the jungle that is the U.S. city is so crisscrossed with fear and alarm wires that the following account of a day in the life of a fictional citizen of a composite U.S. city, based on security measures that already exist, is entirely within the realm of possibility...
...year in office, Glimp will attend regular weekly meetings. The School Committee has jurisdiction over the financial affairs of the School Department. According to Gordon Seavey, editor of the Belmont Citizen, the committee's principal concern at present is the construction program. When it moves on to other problems, Seavey think Glimp's presence will help it move in a progressive direction...
...privacy of every citizen will be fully protected, Sullivan said. "All individual data will be grouped with those of other persons and reported as facts about, say youth who are 16-18 years of age. In this way no person can be identified," he explained...
Badly as they were needed, however, dollars were easier to win than the trust of white constituents, who comprise half of Gary and 66% of Cleveland. Stokes, an attractive extrovert, encouraged any citizen to bring his gripes to the mayor's office-so much so, he jokes, that the practice has "become like a parody on the old Negro spiritual Take Your Troubles to the Lord. Everyone brings his troubles to city hall...
Pusey's letter raises the traditional argument that ROTC civilianizes the military and thus serves a democratic purpose. It is an argument which originated in the 1920's and 1930's, when the relatively simple level of training required for military duties still permitted something approximating a true citizen army. Since the Second World War, however, the growth of military technology has carried with it a new emphasis on the recruitment of career officers through ROTC. Even more importantly, the same expansion of technology, and the diffusion of military production throughout the American economy, have tended to obliterate the distinctions...