Word: passport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pools of dried blood, and the walls were a smear of bloodstains. Heavy tracks of blood led into a second room, where police found a locked yellow trunk containing a hammer and the battered body of a man. The head was crushed to a pulp. An air ticket and passport thumbprint identified him as Herberts Cukurs, 65, a resident of São Paulo, Brazil...
Establishment of the new service, called "Intermedic," was announced by Manhattan's Dr. Richard E. Winter. Intermedic subscribers will get a passport-size directory that includes a list of the plan's 154 approved doctors and two pages on which the traveler should fill in his own medical data with the aid of his personal physician. This information will not only help the overseas doctor but will guard against the patient's getting a shot of a medicine to which he is allergic. The foreign doctors have agreed to a fee schedule for initial visits: not more...
Within the next year, Seagram will bring out two new Scotches (100 Pipers and Passport), and four liqueurs, as well as a gin, a vodka and the first Hawaiian rum. Bronfman aims for 100 Pipers to compete against the bestselling U.S. Scotch, Schenley's Cutty Sark, which happens to be the favorite of Lyndon Johnson. The new liqueurs will have a more limited market than the mixed drinks and Scotches, but will be more profitable. "It is our philosophy," says Edgar, "that as costs keep going up we have to come out with higher margin items...
...acid observations of the Russian scene. The waiters in restaurants were surly, Mihajlov complained, adding that crime is so prevalent that it is dangerous to walk alone on out-of-the-way streets. At a hotel he was "rudely" told that there were no rooms-until he showed his passport. Then he received an instant apology: "We did not know you were a foreigner. We thought you were a Russian...
...Interior. Although Mrs. Eitani's father was a Polish Jew, explains the ministry, her mother was a German Protestant-and according to the Halacha (religious law), a Jew is someone whose mother was Jewish, or a convert to the faith. The ministry demands that she turn in her passport pending the investigation of her citizenship. She has the choice of converting formally to Judaism or becoming a naturalized citizen of Israel...