Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proper teaching of science is probably the greatest problem before American secondary education. Yet the schools must not only teach more physics and chemistry, but should also face the issue of the isolation of science--make science and scientists seem relevant to the citizen, and indeed make citizenship seem relevant to the scientist and bring him into the community...
...Last week Judge Murphy replied to Green-but on a much loftier plane of the law. "As judges," wrote Murphy, "we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic. We owe equal attachment to the Constitution and are equally bound by our judicial obligations, whether we derive our citizenship from the earliest or the latest immigrants to these shores." The mere making of a charge of judicial bias "quickens the conscience of the judge and makes him more careful in discharging his duties. The sunshine of awareness has an antiseptic effect on prejudice...
...Christian conscience cannot rest content with any legal or compulsive arrangement that brands any people as inferior; which denies them the full right of citizenship on the ground of race, color or social status; or which prevents them from developing to the fullest possible extent the potentialities with which they, as individuals, have been endowed by the Creator...
Walter A. Baker '58 of Kirkland House and Columbia, Ky., has won a Citizenship Award from the International Society of Christian Endeavor. A runner-up in the 1956 and 1957 contests, Baker's prize is $200 and a trip to the Society's New York Convocation. He is active in the Student Christian Movement and the Young Republican Club...
...right to establish a regular trade mission (estimated staff: 60) in Cologne, though the West Germans fended off Russian demands for consulates in major cities. The Soviet "concession" in exchange: a verbal promise to give "benevolent" consideration to the repatriation of all Germans (and their families) who held citizenship before June 22, 1941, the day Hitler invaded Russia. The German embassy in Moscow has 80,000 applications on file...