Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...authorities let him go, all right. Last week the Supreme Soviet's Presidium announced that it had deprived Tarsis of his citizenship, "for actions discrediting a citizen of the U.S.S.R.," leaving him permanently stranded in Britain. Tarsis had asked for it. He had roundly condemned "Soviet bandit fascism" at a London press conference, followed that blast with an article, obviously written before the edict but published after it, in the Sunday Telegraph reporting that despite savage persecution, "our people's immeasurable love of freedom is growing...
...Notable Silence. Despite all his pleas for tolerance of repressive regimes abroad, Fulbright has never voted for a federal civil rights bill and has remained notably silent on the Negro's drive for full citizenship. His public indifference to the race issue has not hurt him in Arkansas, which still tends toward white supremacy. Moreover, most Arkansans seem genuinely proud of Fulbright's prominence and, they assume, power...
...past weeks a nation of rotten drivers was informed that it was politically and medically ignorant as well. Given a Citizenship Test highlighted with courtroom dramas and political-convention footage, 41% of CBS's sample could not identify either of their U.S. Senators. The National Health Test concluded with the news that 75% of Americans cannot name even three of cancer's seven danger signals,* and that two-fifths cling to the schoolboy belief that they can get venereal disease from toilet seats...
...NEWS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The National Health Test: Part 1"-for those who found out that they couldn't drive ("The National Drivers Test") and shouldn't vote ("The National Citizenship Test"), a chance to learn how they're ruining their health...
BLUE LIGHT (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Robert Goulet has turned in his operetta cloak for a dagger, stars in this new series about an American who renounces his citizenship to become a Nazi spy. In reality, however, Goulet is a double agent hated and hunted by the very country for which he is risking all, etc., etc. Premi...