Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole world to see. But the marchers took that chance, and the U.S. took it with them. No one who saw the proceedings could come to any other conclusion than that those scores of thousands of marching Negroes were able to accept the responsibilities of first-class citizenship...
...fear of overcrowding its pocket paradise, Liechtenstein (pop. 18,000) has granted citizenship to only a dozen foreigners since 1950, and worries mightily over its rising birth rate. An unsullied blend of lush meadowland and soaring Alpine peaks, the nation nestles so unobtrusively between Austria and Switzerland (since 1924 it has shared currency, customs services and foreign service with the Swiss) that vacationers driving through are often unaware that they are even in Franz Josef's fief. This bothers Liechtenstein's government not at all, for, as Prime Minister Alexander Frick once observed, the sight of idle tourists...
...partially wrong in his recent public statement concerning the Civil Rights struggle and the role of white liberals in this struggle. Mr. Powell is right, if he means that the Negro must stand primarily on his own personal and collective powers to help to equalize his position of citizenship in the American stream of life. He is wrong, if he asserts that the liberal or fairminded white person must now "step-aside" or "step-down," to let the Negro leaders alone fight for Civil Rights...
...himself as industrious on the job as his father. His working day begins at 8:30 a.m., and even on vacation he runs the show from an office on his converted British Fairmile motor torpedo boat. A U.S. Air Force bombardier during World War II, Schlesinger renounced his American citizenship in 1947 (his American wife won a legal separation from him in 1958). Now a South African citizen, he has no use for apartheid. "There will have to be changes here," he says. "The government's policy of separate development is not the answer. South Africa must eventually become...
...miles from the U.S., in Vatican City, Pope Paul VI expressed his keen interest and concern for the civil rights struggle in America. He told visiting President John Kennedy: "We are ever mindful in our prayers of the efforts to ensure to all your citizens the equal benefits of citizenship, which have as their foundation the equality of all men because of their dignity as persons and children...