Word: citizenship
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...took a lawyer to point out the unexpected advantages of her Greek citizenship. What got the lawyer into the act was the fact that Maria wanted to divorce her husband, Italian Industrialist Giovanni Meneghini, whom she married in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Verona in 1949. The trouble was, Meneghini kept saying "No." Since Italy countenances no divorces at all, nothing could be done about the situation in the country where they were married. To make matters worse, a husband's cooperation is usually required, even in such mills as Mexico and Nevada, if the divorce...
...since 1963. His parents have not seen their oldest grandchild, Vladimir Jr., 41, in three years; they have never seen their infant granddaughter Nadya. Still, alone of all the Soviet artists who prefer the Western side of the Iron Curtain, Ashkenazy refuses to defect, clings carefully to his Russian citizenship. He hardly notices that each year he edges a little farther away. In the old days, he forgot to put articles in his English ("I had best steak of my life in Cleveland airport"); now he speaks it fluently. He has recently gone out of his way to make...
Death and taxes are unavoidable. For most people, marriage and taxes seem equally inescapable. Not for tempestuous Soprano Maria Callas. By signing her name to a piece of paper in the American embassy in Paris and renouncing her U.S. citizenship, she shed not only her husband but a hefty potential tax obligation as well...
...with a view to bringing them more in line with the country's emerging awareness that its destiny really rests in Asia. Already the review has produced one result: a prime-ministerial recommendation reducing the 15-year period that non-European immigrants must wait before becoming eligible for citizenship to five years, the same as for European settlers. Holt also hopes to make it easier for Asian executives and technicians who come to Australia on assignments for their companies to bring their wives and families with them. Commented Sydney's Morning Herald: "The minor changes that Holt...
Appalled, Queens District Attorney Nat Hentel last week named Randazzo the first winner of an "honor" certificate to be handed out each year by the D.A. "for the exercise of exceptional citizenship responsibility." Unfortunately, though, in what Hentel aptly calls "the cold society," awards seem unlikely to reform those who live by the big-city philosophy: Ignore thy neighbor...