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...Scotland Yard men to a Convair of the Polish Airlines. Wearing a crumpled brown suit, a shirt too large at the neck, with a row of fountain pens in his breast pocket and carrying a canvas bag still stamped with his prison number, 3492, Fuchs handed the stewardess a oneway ticket to East Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST GERMANY: Return of the Traitor | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...government slap down Montemarano's mayor for putting on the vulgar demonstration. At week's end, Adonis drifted up to Rome on a little junket. Roman cops nabbed him in the outskirts of the city, told him he was a "socially undesirable element," handed him a oneway ticket back to Montemarano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 6, 1956 | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

Small Talk. In Gastonia, N.C., stopped by police for wrong-way driving on a oneway street, J. C. Crump protested that he had not had a drink all day, was arrested and fined $100 when his four-year-old son piped from the back seat: "Why daddy, you just took a drink when you let mamma out at the employment office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 9, 1956 | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

Sweden's luscious (36-23-36) Hillevi Rombin, 21, more renowned as Miss Universe, caused a small sensation in Hollywood by quietly undulating into an airline ticket office and booking a oneway passage to Stockholm. Signed by Universal-International studios at $250 a week, Hillevi had just been handed a bit role in The Benny Goodman Story, as an autograph-hunting U.S. bobbysoxer. A trifle puzzled by the fuss raised over her sudden departure, she later explained that the trip was inspired not by less love of Hollywood but more love of Sweden-and she will return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...leaned back to enjoy a local show that, if aired nationally, might outdraw Dragnet. The private eye, hired by an angry husband to get the goods on his playful wife, was tuned to the goings-on in a nearby room, as relayed by a TV camera installed behind a oneway mirror in a closet door. Occasionally he snapped a photograph of the television picture. It was strictly routine; twice before his agency had used peeping TV in divorce actions, both times had got evidence enough for out-of-court settlements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Kid Brother | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

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