Word: passport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that we should not be afraid. I do not pretend that I am not afraid--nor that you are not afraid," Driver said. It is not easy to lose a passport nor to be confined to a place, however the Minister of Injustice chooses to define it, nor to be deported, nor to be imprisoned, and I for one, am afraid of all these...
...rarely ticket diplomatic drivers, knowing that they will use their immunity to avoid answering the summons. When a British correspondent had the bumper ripped off his car by a speeding Ivory Coast diplomat passing on the wrong side, the police waved on the African at the flash of his passport, but corralled the newsman as a "trouble maker." Realizing that immunity can be abused, British Ambassador Sir Frank Roberts has forbidden his staff to in voke it in traffic cases. More of the same could perhaps bring about a thaw in Bonn's little cold...
...island laboratory for Marxist revolution, Fidel Castro's Cuba is the place where stern Communist discipline meets Fidel Castro's quixotic Latin temperament. To assess the experiment, TIME'S Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, traveling on his Canadian passport, first visited Havana 17 months ago. Last week he returned from a second two-week trip to Cuba. A summary of his report...
White Chief. In 1946, when he was 26, Polish-born Rachman had arrived in Britain virtually penniless and possessing a stateless person's passport. At first, he found postwar Britain a bleak place. His English was poor, and he labored as kitchen helper, insurance agent and black marketeer. He made his bid for fortune in the early 1950s by borrowing $2,500 to buy a lodging house near London's Harrow Road. The house cost so little because seven of its eight rooms were occupied by tenants protected by rent control and immune from eviction. Rachman rented...
...most noxious of our walls is the one we have built around Cuba. It is a paper wall, erected in the offices of the State Department, and its sole functions to keep Americans out of Cuba. Americans who travel to that island without a specially validated passport face, on their return, fines of up to five thousand dollars, jail terms of up to five years, or both...