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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Midst laurels stood: Comedian Bob Hope, 61, given the National Citizenship Award of the Military Chaplains Association for his "tireless, unselfish efforts" to bring "warmth and cheer by personal visits" to U.S. servicemen; Composer Benjamin Britten, 50, winner of the New York Music Critics' Circle awards in two categories-operatic (for A Midsummer Night's Dream) and choral (War Requiem); Thomas J. Watson Jr., 50, chairman of International Business Machines Corp., elected president of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America (he joined his first troop in Short Hills, N.J., on the day in 1927 that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 29, 1964 | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...Congress that in 28 years it has done so only eight times-nearly always on the ground of safeguarding individual rights. Last week the court cautiously did it again by voting 5 to 3 to throw out a federal statute that strips naturalized Americans of U.S. citizenship if they return to their native country for three or more years. The ruling evidently makes equally unenforceable a companion statute that has the same effect on naturalized Americans who live in any foreign country for five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Welcome Home | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

Congress enacted the expatriation rules to avoid squabbles with other countries in behalf of naturalized Americans who "only claim citizenship when it suits their purpose." But the rules do not apply to native-born Americans, who can live abroad as long as they please, and it may well be that this disparity presumes for naturalized Americans a kind of second-class citizenship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Welcome Home | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...these trips their eighth child, Sidney, was born, thus becoming an American citizen by a fluke that turned out to be lucky. The tomato farm died in an agricultural disaster year. At 15, Sidney was coasting toward delinquency. His father, deciding that the boy's American citizenship might save him, sent him to live with a brother in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Wailing for Them All | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...ultimately reverberated up and down the length of East Africa's Great Rift. "It would be wrong of us to continue to distinguish between Tanganyikan citizens on any ground other than character and ability," he told the nation. "We cannot allow the growth of first-and second-class citizenship." Africanization, he said, was dead. For this bow to racial equality, he was immediately and savagely denounced by trade union leaders in Dar. Silent but more ominous was the reaction of the Tanganyika Rifles, the nation's 1,600-man army. Still commanded by British officers two years after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Who Is Safe? | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

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