Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long, patient hours at the polls, Alabama's Negroes grasped for themselves last week the full citizenship to which federal civil rights legislation had served only as a passport. Their courage and persistence proved an optimistic augury, not only for the Old Confederacy's five million Negroes of voting age but also for the nation as a whole. For the promise held out by Alabama's primary is that the politics of the South will become more mature and more meaningful as more and more Negroes freely participate in elections, the free society's fundamental process...
Once Gerda was safely in Canada, the Mountie report went on, she waited out her five-year-residence requirement and applied for citizenship. Then came a routine investigation that turned up not only her past record but also the fact that she "had been carrying on an illicit sexual relationship with the Associate Minister of National Defense"-Pierre Sevigny...
...Extremely Vulnerable." All the while, the Mounties said, Gerda was "very actively engaged as a common prostitute" in Montreal and, as such, associated with members of Montreal's underworld. When Gerda's citizenship was finally turned down, she returned to West Germany. But before leaving she went on a buying spree, scattering rubber checks all over Montreal. When they bounced her into jail, Gerda threatened the cops with Sevigny's name, and was free the next...
...what is in effect a welfare state, the election of a Roman Catholic to the presidency-could have torn or distorted the fabric of less firmly based societies. In the U.S. they were possible without major upheavals precisely because the underlying tradition of freedom under law and of responsible citizenship is so strong. Despite the disappearance of so many familiar landmarks, Sociologist David Riesman sees "incredible durability and tenacity" and suggests that tradition is strongest when it is least self-conscious or ideological: "If you're in it, you're not self-conscious...
Then Callas' lawyers told her that under Greek law Greek citizens are validly married only if the ceremony is performed in the Greek Orthodox Church-which hers was not. Eureka! By giving up her U.S. citizenship, she would become a Greek and nothing but a Greek. Which meant that she would also become a single woman again...