Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...striking testimony to the hot and cold, the good and bad, in our everyday existence in this society when we can see a good citizen like Tiny Tim marry beautiful Vicky Budinger the same day that a 19 year-old dope fiend cheats his way to a pancake eating title. Dancer's Image was forced to surrender the top prize at the Kentucky Derby, and in view of this clear precedent, Quincy House should strip the pancake title from the Raccoon. Aunt Jemima would want it no other...
...readers have heard about patriotism, battered children, truth, tradition, poverty, blindness, language and protest. The agencies report that the response has been abundant and heartwarming. Leo Burnett Co. Inc.'s ad on environment and pollution resulted in requests for 30,000 reprints. After urging the silent citizen to speak out, Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample Inc. received a flood of congratulations, including one note allowing that "maybe Madison Avenue isn't all bad after all." The ad that has so far drawn the most active response was by Young & Rubicam (Oct. 24), which urged citizens to help construct play areas...
...citizen confounded by all the numbers-from social security, bank accounts, credit cards, car registration and driver's license, telephones, payroll, zip code-he finds attached to his name, there is not even nominal consolation in a new decision of the Ohio District Court of Appeals. Paul Ferguson, 57, of Columbus, was appealing his conviction for trying to pass a forged check; he had used someone else's social security card to cash the check, and his lawyers were contending that under the Miranda ruling limiting police interrogations Ferguson had been improperly induced to admit that the social...
...they can do that, they can ask his social security number as well. Said Judge Horace Troop (269-01-6697), with Judge Robert Holmes (284-16-9567) and Judge Robert Leach (330-40-5373) concurring: "In this modern day, name and social security number are in practice interchangeable. A citizen is no longer just a name. He is at once also a number. We are but a very short step removed from the issuance of a number with a birth certificate. To be a man without a number is hopelessly confusing...
...West Germany, the magazine Der Stern asked Nürnberg War Crimes Prosecutor Robert Kempner. a naturalized American citizen, how My Lai would have been judged. Had there been such evidence in 1945, he said, the guilty would have been tried-no matter which parties had been involved...