To be eligible for the U.S. Olympic team. Macy must be a U.S. citizen. and he will not fulfill the 5year residency requirement of the naturalization law until a few months after the 1960 Olympics come to an end. That. ordinarily. would be that. But last year Senate Majority Leader LYNDON JOHNSON. a pretty fair expediter. submitted a bill to speed Macys citizenship. The Texas Senator reasoned that Macy. his constituenttobe. had a special argument for getting his final papers earlier than usual. i.e.. the Olympics. The Senate easily agreed and passed the bill last May. Next it went to the House Judiciary Committee. which slid the bill along to its Subcommittee on Immigration where it stumbled for the first time. "We just cant do this." said the subcommittee chairman. Congressman FRANciS WALTER. of Pennsylvania. who argued that if Congress makes exceptions of this sort the United States is open to Communist charges of decadence and of bootlegging its athletes from behind the Iron Curtain. "I will use every effort to block its approval." Last week WALTERS group sent the bill back to the main committee with a recommendation that John Macy be required to wait out his naturalization period like anybody else. Similar bills have been offered in behalf of other foreignborn athletes. Senator BARRY M.
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