Word: passport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sirs: I found to my great surprise that my age was increased four years by you in the article, "Thrills, Spills & Pola Negri" [Nov. 20]. The magazine stated that I was 69 years old. In reality, according to my birth certificate and passport, I was born on the 31st of December...
Sometimes the result is worth the tedium (the birth of a baby), sometimes not (the refusal of a loan). Either way, there is no alternative method for meeting a plane or departing on one, getting a tooth removed, a passport renewed, or voting. Like any routine, waiting takes its own time, has its own special locales, makes its own etiquette. The furniture, accordingly may be much the same, but the fellow who reclines expansively in a comfortable armchair while awaiting an expense-account lunch guest is apt to assume a straighter posture in an identical chair when protesting outrageous alimony...
...Trinity College for five years, later worked for the U.N.'s International Monetary Fund. He is an amateur artist, is so Americanized that he is known affectionately in Saigon's U.S. colony as "Jack Owen," after his last two names. Vietnamese insist that Oanh carries a U.S. passport, something on which the State Department cautiously refuses to comment...
...Alice, she and her husband Petrus Mulenga had prudently slipped into hiding, calling for a "holy war" to the bitter end. Alice's followers could take heart from her latest promise: anybody who dies from those water bullets is guaranteed a "passport to heaven," opening the gates of paradise where a Black God reigns supreme...
...more dramatic than the increase for leisure. Of personal loans in New York City banks this summer, 21% are being taken out for travel; on the West Coast, tourists to the Orient have doubled in two years. Across the U.S. the housewife ranks second after the businessman as a passport applicant. Those who stay home spend on second homes, pleasure boats and swimming pools; in California 3% of all boat owners earn less than $5,000. In addition, 25% of all families now own two cars-and the latest trend is to a third. 'There is only so much...