Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of the ancient world among English-speaking readers, and last week the Greeks were determined to show their gratitude. In the name of the King, the Minister of Education decorated her with the Golden Cross of the Order of Benefaction. But in a sense, the honor of citizenship was a mere formality, for in spirit Edith Hamilton has always been an Athenian...
...leather-jacketed World Citizen Garry Davis fluttered from Canada to Le Havre, drifted into West Germany, got netted at Oebisfelde by East German border guards after he flashed his credentials (his do-it-yourself World Passport 000.001). Bounced back to West German cops, Davis responded with lectures on world citizenship when asked for proper papers, pettishly tore up his passport and mewled, "I don't want to go back to those evil men" when ear-bent cops threatened to toss him back to the border guards Numbed by the nonsense, the lawmen in advertently let Davis flit free long...
Dunn, a government major, is chairman of the House committee at Adams. The scholarship is an annual award presented to an Adams junior on the basis of "leadership, character, scholarship and good House citizenship...
Actually, the President had stepped well beyond the letter of the law in permitting the parolees to enter the U.S. and promising that they get regular citizenship status, which had to come from Congress. But he understood the outpouring of U.S. sympathy for Hungary's Freedom Fighters, and Congressmen, then on vacation, generally applauded his act. Since then, the necessary legislation has been bottled up in the Senate Judiciary Committee by Chairman James O. Eastland and in the House Immigration Subcommittee by Chairman Francis E. Walter, who is averse to any change in the McCarran-Walter Act, which...
...been approached, namely himself, and that the intermediary had been a "Professor X." He told the security officer that he was loath to reveal the name of the professor because it would get him into trouble (Chevalier was a French national, apparently interested in securing American citizenship) even though he was certain, on the basis of his knowledge of the man's character, that he had intended nothing improper...