Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Long Beach, Calif. As usual, all the other girls in the contest beamed pluckily through their disappointment, but back in Manhattan there was one who didn't: Regina Ruta, the Lithuanian-born blonde who was chosen Miss New York City last month and then disqualified because her U.S. citizenship had not yet come through. She announced that she is giving up beauty contests forever to become a veterinarian...
Disenchanted Immigrants. Such harsh measures seem likely to cause an exodus of the immigrants, who now constitute more than half the population. Many of them had already become disenchanted with Kuwait because they are denied citizenship and have been increasingly limited in their choice of jobs by a government anxious to protect the 200,000 native (and minority) Kuwaitis. Some immigrants have sent their families back home, moved from houses into apartments and begun saving rather than spending their money. Result: a glut of empty houses, a crimp in the real estate market, and a further reduction in consumer spending...
...born mysteriously on an island off Japan, he further complicates matters by playing Siamese kings, saturnine Russians, Maya chieftains and other outlandish types. To untangle things-some-the real Yul Brynner, 45, stood up and went to the U.S. embassy in Berne, Switzerland, where he formally renounced the U.S. citizenship he has held since he was naturalized in 1947. He retains Swiss citizenship now, with his wife Doris and daughter Victoria, who do not qualify to become U.S. citizens since they live abroad. Some people thought the shift would ease his tax burden, but Yul said that he gave...
...Please correct your reference to Czechoslovakia in TIME'S foreign law story [May 7]. U.S. citizens of Czechoslovak origin or descent do not usually have dual citizenship, and they and their U.S.-born children are not subject to arrest if they visit Czechoslovakia. No person, regardless of citizenship, is subject to arrest unless he violates Czechoslovak law. The status of dual citizenship is not a crime under Czechoslovak...
...insecurity of constant acquisitiveness and precarious status; as the dislike by the remnants of the old Republican coalition (rural, midwest) for the New Deal generation and the Roosevelt coalition (urban, east); and as the hatred of the hyphened Americans (the Italian- and German-Americans) for the second-class citizenship imposed upon them by World War II (by attaching Communism, the thesis holds, these immigrant groups not only gained revenge against a hated enemy of their home country but acquired needed prestige in America...