Word: passport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France's Flight 136 from Paris landed at Tel Aviv's Lydda International Airport and discharged a dozen passen gers. One of them, a balding man in dark glasses, made straight for the arrival hut, displayed a Canadian passport, No. 4-328384. Name: Beras Goble. Age: 72. Occupation: Engineer. Permanent Residence: Montreal. The police and customs passed him on quickly...
...passport was not his. It had be longed to a brother who had committed suicide five years before. The traveler was, in fact, Dr. Robert Soblen, 61, a psychiatrist, who last July was convicted in a New York federal court for spying for Russia. Appeals to higher courts, including the Supreme Court, had failed, and Soblen, weary, dying of leukemia, had jumped $100,000 bail and fled to Israel...
...Aviv airport, Soblen hailed a taxi, went to the seaside Savoy Hotel, showed the passport, got a room, and began making phone calls to cousins and childhood friends from his birthplace in Lithuania. When he tried one number-41614-he was told that it had been disconnected, and he shouted angrily at the hotel operator: "It's impossible! That's one number I must get!" Throughout the next day, he strolled the nearby streets, conferred with an attorney friend, and read the newspapers. Then, next morning, alerted by newspaper stories, three Israeli policemen knocked on his door...
Sample come-on for Britons, prepared by Ogilvy, Benson & Mather: "You can tour the U.S.A. for ?35 [$98] a week-without skimping. In the U.S.A. you can travel for 3,000 miles without crossing a border or showing your passport. If you journeyed this far in Europe, you would pass through ten different countries with different laws and different languages. And open your luggage for ten different customs inspectors." As the ads point out, tourists may inspect such monuments to the American way as dude ranches, Mississippi riverboats, Indians, New England clambakes, country square dances...
...material, but we were still eager to get our own man into Havana. The solution was easy. Castro is doing his best to keep on good terms with Canada, and lets Canadian journalists in freely. As a result, Gavin Scott of our Ottawa bureau, traveling on his Canadian passport, spent two weeks in Havana, seeing a lot of the city, talking to government officials, housewives in shopping queues, workers. Putting together the material from Halper, Scott and others, Latin American Specialist Peter Bird Martin wrote the story. This is his seventh cover story on Latin American figures; the last...