Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lorraine Faxon Meisener was summoned by the Committee as a surprise witness in its investigation of communist influences in the Detroit area. She was asked if her real purpose in applying for a passport last summer was to attend the Communist Youth Festival. She stood on her constitutional rights in refusing to answer both this question and whether she was a communist. The committee brought no specific charges against...
...Meisner was summoned as a surprise witness in the committee's investigation of communist activity in the Detroit area. Last spring she applied for a European passport "for a sight seeing and education tour." Committee counsel Frank S. Tavenner, Jr. asked her if her real purpose was to attend the Communist World Youth Festival in Berlin. She refused to answer...
Next morning on the German-Czech border, Vishinsky stepped out of the comfortable Orient Express, went aboard a dingy second-class Czech train decorated with a huge red star. A German border official noted that Mrs. Vishinsky's hair, described as black in her passport, had become a coppery red in Paris...
...record for peregrination probably goes to Jim Bell, who stepped out of the Korean fire to cover the Middle East's sizzling frying pan. He cabled: "I've added 42 pages to my passport's normal 48 pages. Security functionaries in this part of the world love my passport. They play it like an accordion. I've made eight trips to Iran, seven to Egypt, six to Syria, three each to Turkey and Iraq, two each to Greece and Bahrein, one each to Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar ... My wife wistfully wishes...
This hour-long escape sequence achieves a rising level of suspense as Howard uses his espionage training in car stealing, judo, passport forging, and disguise to foil both the police and his fellow agents. In the Liverpool warehouse climax villainy gets its gory reward, and "Clouded Yellow" establishes itself as unusually good entertainment...