Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Party-Lining Baritone Paul Robeson, 58, battling for six years to get a passport in order to visit behind the Iron Curtain, was as far from the promised land as ever. The U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a dismissal of Robeson's suit against Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Robeson's perennial dilemma: until he unclams about his past and present Red ties he will not even be considered for a passport...
...return to his native Russia will be his first trip in 37 years. His passport was validated, although he left Russia in 1920 as a known opponent of the Soviet regime...
...since Author Athas wrote a small but heartbreaking first novel, The Weather of the Heart (TIME, June 2, 1947), a tragedy of teen-age lovers which proved absolute authority in that difficult literary place, the world of childhood. She is back in that world again, with the additional passport of one who taught algebra to the blind after leaving college. That the problems she sensed were deeper than those she put to her students is clearly evident in The Fourth World, a world as eerie and haunting as any that this year's crop of fiction...
...then would suddenly fling aside his rags and open fire with a submachine gun. "It was a case of kill or be killed in the forest," said Gash. Another operator working with the Pseudos was William Baldwin, a young American on the Kenya police force, who had his U.S. passport lifted when Washington found out about his activities...
Jakobson, too, is still uncertain about the details of the late May meeting of slavicists. With his U.S. passport--recently validated for travel in the Soviet Union--Jakobson is free to attend, even though he left Russia in 1920 as a known opponent of the Soviet regime...