Word: passport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first editorial promised subsequent stories on birth control; postal inspectors grabbed up copies, and she was indicted on nine counts of sending birth control information through the mails. Deciding she needed time to prepare her defense, she left her three children with a nurse. Without court permission, without a passport, and under the alias "Bertha Watson," she left on a midnight train for Montreal and thence to Europe...
...university diploma, as every Soviet schoolboy knows, is an essential passport to a white-collar job and ultimate success. Inevitably, the competition for college has led to a displeasing amount of corruption. This spring, reported Komsomolskaya Pravda, 32 students were expelled from the Armenian state university in Erivan when authorities discovered that they had gained their admission through political influence and faked records, and had not passed a single entrance test...
...result, the record number of Europe-bound travelers may have a hard time getting the flights they want. Passport issuances are running 14% ahead of last year, and advance transatlantic bookings are up 27% at TWA and 29% at Pan Am, with many weekday excursion-fare flights sold...
...Yorker who writes English fiction and who travels on his native Dutch passport, Koningsberger waited four years for a visa, then last summer made one of those brief tours, with stops in Peking, Shanghai, Nanking, Hangchow and Canton, that Peking now conducts for non-Americans...
...expedite just such matters, U.S. consulates have specially trained personnel. Standard procedure calls for working with members of the family, if they are present, or cabling them for instructions if they are not (all passport applications list next of kin). The family is requested to deposit money with the State Department to defray the expenses (minimum cost from Europe, $1,100 including embalming and transportation). In most instances the deceased is homeward bound within three to four days. Delay does occur, however, when the deceased has left a will specifying how and where he wishes to be buried...