Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Rio's police scooped up Lowell McAfee Birrell, 52, a month ago, it seemed likely that Brazil would deport him posthaste. Indicted in Manhattan on 69 counts of grand larceny and held on suspicion of entering Brazil on a false passport, the man accused of stealing $14 million worth of stock from a pair of U.S. companies appeared certain to end up inside a U.S. courtroom, even though the U.S. and Brazil do not have an extradition treaty...
...interested in his wheeler-dealing around Rio, where he tried to promote stock in a plastic company and import seven cars as personal baggage (including Cadillacs worth $14,000 each in Rio). As the police frisked Birrell, they found a fresh charge in his left coat pocket: a Canadian passport he had used for false entry into Brazil only a week before...
...Ambassador (to Russia); 3) Governor (New York); 4) a man of such towering clout in Washington that former Secretary of State Dean Acheson personally toted his passport application (for a planned trip to Red China) to the State Department for approval. What's more, Harriman had brought along a collaborator almost as impressive: Charles W. Thayer, brother-in-law of ex-U.S. Ambassador to Russia Charles E. Bohlen and himself a career diplomat (including four years in Russia) turned freelance writer (Bears in the Caviar, The Unquiet Germans). Thayer's job was to act as combination guide...
...said. "I'm Irish-English." "Well, what about your middle name?" he said. "You mean 'Goetz?' " I asked. "Yes." So I said I had just a little German in me, and remembered that the only place my middle name appeared was on my passport (I had not used it on my tourist card), which I had locked in my dispatch case in my room...
Almost 30 years after he last boomed through the title role of Othello in England, Actor Paul Robeson, 61, was the tormented Moor again at the Shakespeare Memorial Theater, opening the 100th season of the mecca in Stratford-on-Avon. Free to roam since his eight-year U.S. passport ban was lifted last June, Fellow Traveler Robeson got an ovation from the audience, almost unanimous huzzahs from the critics, but his Desdemona, blonde British Actress Mary Ure, was rapped for her lack of pathos...