Word: passport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mail, had been looking forward to a visit to Britain, on an invitation mailed him just the week before by an admiring British newspaper group. Then, suddenly, two of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's detectives changed his plans by calling at his home and relieving him of his passport - indefinitely. Joked Gandar: "For a moment, it struck me that somebody here might have been reading my mail. But I dismissed so unworthy a thought...
...detectives did not say why they had revoked the passport. But it doubtlessly had to do with his campaign to expose the abuses in South Africa's prisons first reported to the Mail by ex-Prisoner Robert Harold Strachan (TIME, July 23). Last week Strachan, after two months of house arrest, was formally charged with violating the Prisons Act, which makes it a crime to provide false information about the jails. His trial is set for Sept...
Today Szeryng plays the concert circuit ten months of the year, travels on a diplomatic passport as Mexico's official cultural ambassador. Not as flashy as the school of violin virtuosos that U.S. audiences are accustomed to hearing, Szeryng enjoys his greatest popularity in Europe. "He is a musician's musician," explains Rubinstein patriotically. "In the U.S., the masses go to concerts for entertainment. But real music lovers want emotion-great moments-which Szeryng's playing gives them." Real music lovers will have a chance to judge for themselves this October, when Szeryng will play with...
...breasts in broad daylight, fled when she screamed. Security guards were late in responding because they had been called to another part of the building to investigate an attempted purse-snatching. Last week additional guards were assigned to the building, and the head of the department's Passport Office, Miss Frances G. Knight, went a step further. She issued a directive urging female employees to "stand near the alarm button whenever riding elevators" and to "always work in teams," ordered that male employees, upon request, escort girls to the basement parking garage or the building's sign...
...grew. In quasi-documentary style, British Director John Schlesinger (Billy Liar) begins with a standard narrative device: a celebrated beauty spilling "My Story" to a magazine called Ideal Woman. Her name is Diana (Julie Christie), a sometime model, sometime bit actress, anytime trollop, whose face is her passport to the haut rnonde, where a legion of intimates come to know her as "Darling...