Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Channel round trip and non-stop to international acclaim, California's Florence Chadwick set out thoroughly greased from Dover, but after giving up a mile off the French coast, was beached by irate French customs officials, who took a dim view of her arrival or departure without a passport...
Frankie has his gang. He is rarely to be seen without a few. and sometimes as many as ten of "the boys" around him, and some look indeed like unfortunate passport photographs. A few of the Sinatra staff-Manager Hank Sanicola, Writer Don McGuire, Makeup-man "Beans" Ponedel-have established and important functions, but most of the others are classified as "beards and hunkers,"* and as they march in bristling phalanx along Sunset Strip, Frank walks lordly at the head of them...
...Cross Society of China invited Mrs. Addie Rigney, 77, of Chicago, to visit her son, the Rev. Harold W. Rigney, 54, onetime U.S. Air Force chaplain, postwar rector of Fu Jen University in Peking and a prisoner of the Chinese Reds since 1951. But Mrs. Rigney was refused a passport by the State Department, was told that the priest's problem was on the agenda of the Geneva Conference...
After waiting more than three months for a passport, Stephen Ramasodi, the 16-year-old South African Negro to whom Kent School in Connecticut had offered a scholarship (TIME, July 25), learned that his hopes for getting away from the land of apartheid were dashed. Said the Ministry of the Interior in a blunt telegram to Stephen's headmaster: "Application for passport refused." The philosophy behind the refusal, according to one government official: "Frankly, Stephen Ramasodi would be taught things he could never use when he came back to South Africa. Why should we let the boy be frustrated...
...passport had still not come. But every time Huddleston wrote or phoned the Ministry of the Interior, he merely got the stock answer that the matter was under consideration. Huddleston wired to a member of Parliament, and was promised an "investigation." He appealed to the Anglican Bishop of Pretoria, eventually got back from the Ministry the answer: "The matter is receiving attention." Finally he sent off one more telegram, and this time he received a letter from the Native Affairs Minister's private secretary accusing him of "crude methods." By last week it seemed obvious that the South African...