Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pointer ('28), World War II bomber pilot, and onetime head of the Air University's War College. Shocked at the turncoat performance of some U.S. prisoners in Korea, Spivey turned down fat offers from industry, decided to devote himself to educating youngsters "in the real meaning of citizenship...
...only you," said he, "are in a position to speak to millions of Negroes in the United States who have not escaped the apathy, the loss of vision, the dread resignation before harsh circumstances that mark the walking wounded in a 300-year battle for freedom and full citizenship...
...situation in Germany was somewhat different, Klausner said. "Jaws were defined as enemies of the state, were deprived of their citizenship and right to work. they began to appear different; dehumanization was taking taking place...
...foreign nation refused to let American Negroes enter the country in order to participate on the U.S. Olympic team. This is exactly analogous to the Jordanian refusal to allow American Jews to work on Project Jarba. The phenomena and their origins are different, but the effects are identical: Secondclass citizenship for Americans who are entitled by the Constitution to enjoy equal opportunities...
...with a touch of sadness that renowned Physicist Leopold Infeld, 63, a close collaborator of Albert Einstein, gave up his Canadian citizenship eleven years ago and returned home to Poland. After 17 years in the West, said Infeld at the time, "I have come to love and admire Canada's democratic spirit, its sense of fair play." Now chairman of Poland's Atomic Energy Commission, Infeld recalls these Western values-within the limits set by Poland's cultural commissars. In a semi-official magazine. Infeld dutifully asserts that freedom in the U.S. is diminishing, but adds...