Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Interplanetary Society,† dedicated to the promotion of "interplanetary exploration and communication," decided that tomorrow's astronauts would need something besides a three-stage rocket ship before they swished into space. With deadpan ceremony last week he issued to a few friends and colleagues a "British Stellar Passport," a blue-covered, gold-embossed booklet that looks for all the world like a standard British passport...
...Council's 125-man Consultative Assembly (equivalent in theory to the U.S. House of Representatives) meets twice yearly. Since 1949 it has contemplated issuing a common European passport, building a Jules Verne type of tunnel under the English Channel and outlawing the slogan "My country, right or wrong." But its counsels have produced little. Basically they represent a wish, not an urge...
...small university (3,000) that does not buy its football teams. At Princeton he has a scholarship, just as 42% of his teammates have (and 40% of all Princeton undergraduates). He is an above-average student majoring in psychology. He has no intention of using football as a passport to a professional athletic career...
...said, "The ownership of property . . . comes as a reward for work; it's no longer a passport to the good graces of the Tory Party," is the son of a surgeon and married to the daughter of the late Viscount Dawson of Penn, who used to sign George V's medical bulletins. Eccles' wife, Sybil, is dark, intelligent, and rated about the party's best woman speaker...
...denying Corliss Lamont a passport for European travel, the State Department has begun to draw an iron curtain which is as great a danger as its Russian counterpart to understanding and spreading democracy. This is the curtain of an unofficial "house arrest" which may envelop individuals whose particular brand of "Americanism" conflicts with the preachings of Senators McCarthy and McCarran--State Department critics who spend more time than the Supreme Court in interpreting and defending the Constitution...