Word: citizenship
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...enter contracts, to transfer or inherit property, to hold public office, to testify, to serve as a juror and to take civil service examinations. Even after he pays his debt to society, a felon may be barred for life from all sorts of positions requiring a license or unsullied citizenship-doctor, architect, soldier, barber, druggist, liquor salesman, union officer, veterinarian...
...somebody might look at you and say 'You're a Negro,'" remarks Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Friedel C. Greene, 25, a carrier-based radar tracker from Memphis. "Over here they just look to see if you do your job." That hopeful sentiment reflects a concern with full citizenship that goes far beyond the desperate banalities of Negro dissidents...
...Budapest gave up all efforts to effect a settlement last fall and reportedly ordered Radványi to abandon mediation attempts. Devoutly believing in closer East-West relations, Radványi became increasingly-and, in the end, irrevocably-frustrated by his government's instructions, and opted for American citizenship rather than a Hungarian ambassadorship...
...called a foreign film star. It was disclosed last week that she renounced her U.S. citizenship in October, and became a British subject...
Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, a Mormon who describes himself as "deeply troubled by the issue," says that the church's policy "is like granting citizenship and saying 'you can't hold office.'" The nation's best-known Mormon, Michigan Governor George Romney, has refrained from calling for a change in the doctrine, in deference to the authority of his church's elders. But Romney's own civil rights record is so impeccable that his percentage of Michigan's Negro vote has gone up in each of his three gubernatorial campaigns. Williams also...