Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labyrinthine years, Dr. Otto Nathan tried to get a passport to go abroad "for pleasure and study." About 1,000,000 other U.S. citizens got passports during this period, but Dr. Nathan ran into difficulties. As an economics professor at New York University and the executor of Physicist Albert Einstein's will, Dr. Nathan specifically wants to attend the Jubilee of the Relativity Theory in Bern, Switzerland, to seek cooperation from scientists in preserving and publishing Einstein's manuscripts. But the State Department first stalled, then denied Dr. Nathan his passport, vaguely letting it be known that there...
...last March, District Court Judge Henry A. Schweinhaut ordered the State Department to give Dr. Nathan "a prompt and appropriate hearing." State filed a petition asking the court to review the whole case. Last fortnight Judge Schweinhaut criticized State for "dillydallying delaying tactics," and ordered that Nathan's passport be delivered "forthwith." State responded by taking the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals, which stayed Judge Schweinhaut's order but ruled that Dr. Nathan must have a "quasi-judicial hearing" within five days; if State continued to withhold the Nathan passport, it would be compelled to defend...
...this point, rather than go through with the hearing, the State Department decided to grant Dr. Nathan his passport, asserting nonetheless that "the issuance of passports is a discretionary executive function." For Otto Nathan, getting ready for his trip to Switzerland, the outcome was clear and encouraging. "The State Department's action in issuing a passport to me," he said, "vindicates the fundamental right of every American citizen to travel...
...called a press conference, sponsored by the party-line Progressive Party, blithely reported that she had been entertained at an "excellent" lunch by Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Georgy N. Zarubin, who personally assured her that she was welcome back in Russia any time she could get a U.S. passport...
...called on him. He has called on Queen Elizabeth, presented a keg of slivovitz to Winston Churchill. He has exchanged toasts with the Queen of Greece, been feted at the Dolmabaghche palace in Ankara, which he had last visited as an agent of international Communism traveling with a forged passport. He has traveled to India to see Nehru, to Burma to confer with U Nu; he has talked with Egypt's Nasser aboard a yacht...