Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, ticket in hand, Rodney got some bad news. When he called the State Department about his passport, Division Chief Mrs. Ruth Shipley asked him: "Are you a Communist?" Answered Rodney: "That's none of your concern. What does that have to do with a passport to cover a sport event?" Mrs. Shipley thought it had plenty to do with it, since the "spirit of" the McCarran Internal Security Act bans passports for Communists. If Rodney would swear he was not a Red, she said, he could get his passport. When he declined to do so, Mrs. Shipley...
Word leaked out that the State Department early this month instructed customs men at U.S. points of departure to keep their eyes peeled for an ex-diplomat and Far Eastern expert who once traveled broadly and freely: Johns Hopkins Professor Owen Lattimore, who has no passport to leave...
Meanwhile, a shortage of good economists in Russia made his government restless for his return. He has always done a considerable amount of traveling, and his requests for extensions on his Russian passport would be answered with notes asking pointedly, "are you planning to revisit Russia this trip?" "'I am sorry,' I would tell them, 'it is not on my itinerary...
...Kremlin took these gentle snubs for a number of years, but in 1934 his passport expired. To replace it he procured from the University an awesome document covered with a huge golden Harvard Seal, pronouncing him a professor in good standing, and an affidavit signed and sealed by the Secretary of State of Massachusetts declaring the first document "genuine." The twin seals, under which an array of visas was soon attached, never failed to dazzle frontier authorities...
Perhaps, after all, it would be fairest to rate the year-book, for seniors at least, as a record of the College. The seniors' pictures are almost all there, the activities are exhaustively represented, and many of the best faculty people are there, in passport size. For seniors, the $9.50 investment is a worthwhile one; they will undoubtedly consult the book frequently in years to come. But even here there are inadequacies. Toward the end of the list of seniors in each House, it is unclear which name goes with which picture, and indeed the orders...