6,000 Sworn In as Citizens in New York Ceremony
<i> United Press International</i>
NEW YORK —
In what officials termed the largest swearing-in ceremony in decades, 6,000 New Yorkers Friday celebrated their first day as Americans. The new citizens, most of them residents of Brooklyn or Queens, crowded into the gymnasium at St. John’s University in Queens.
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