Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While more Americans than ever are going abroad and spending more, Reed constantly badgers U.S. and foreign governments to increase the bonanza by cutting passport and customs red tape. "Visas and other certificates and fees cost as much as $147," says he, "or 10% of the cost of the transportation for a trip to eleven countries." Reed points out that the 0.5% of disposable income spent by U.S. tourists on foreign travel has decreased from the 0.8% peak in 1929. But as travel becomes faster and cheaper, he predicts, foreign countries will lure more than 2,500,000 U.S. tourists...
...Asia in the Philippines, he left behind elation and renewed morale. In Taipei and in Seoul he held friendly conferences with Formosa's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and with Korea's President Syngman Rhee. In sensitive Japan he carefully went through Japanese immigration procedures, had his passport stamped, and spoke of the "relationship of peace, friendship and cooperation" between Japan...
...married shy young Princess Taveth Norleach. Monique seemed definitely out in the cold-but there is no law in Cambodia limiting the number of wives or concubines a prince may take. When Sihanouk left for a holiday on the Riviera a fortnight ago, Monique was his companion, and her passport was made out to Madame Norodom Sihanouk. Last week the Cambodian government revealed that Sihanouk had made Monique Izzi his wife No. 2 less than a week after marrying the princess...
...would like to reiterate that I indeed encouraged people to go to the next Festival in Moscow in 1957 to see for themselves, as I was able to do, especially now in this era of growing exchange between east and west and with passport restriction lifted on travel to Eastern Europe. I have the fullest confidence that Harvard students are intelligent enough to draw their own conclusions from such a trip...
Although left-wing Artist Rockwell Kent, 72, long ago testified under oath that he has never been a Communist, he is not willing to swear so for the State Department. Reason: Kent claims that repetition of his earlier denial is "irrelevant" to getting a passport. Result: a passport has thrice been denied to Artist Kent since 1950. Last week, Kent admitted the paradox of his position: "I have spent so much money on lawyers in my fight to get a passport that when I eventually do receive it, I'll have to recover financially so I'll have...