Word: passport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performances have earned him an honored place among the world's best violinists. "After Oistrakh," remarked an astonished Moscow critic last spring, "Ricci was designed by nature to play the violin." Ricci himself gives part credit for his style to his "Latin descent," is embarrassed that his passport still identifies him as Woodrow Wilson Rich, a name he picked up at birth after his onetime-trombonist father had decided to Anglicize the family name. Woodrow Wilson was presented with his first violin when he was five. When he was eight, he was told that the old family name better...
...while drifting lazily over the Bay of Naples, Tom suddenly rams a fish knife into Philip's heart, wraps his body in a tarpaulin, weights it with an anchor, drops it overboard. Then he sails back to port, puts his own picture in Philip's passport, schools himself to forge the victim's signature, coolly cashes his checks and starts to live...
...tight-knit family; his closest adviser is a brother who has an office in the palace. All departmental reports go to Diem's office for scrutiny; no battalion commander in the field would dare mount a major attack without his personal O.K.; until recently, in fact, no South Vietnamese passport could be issued without the signature of the President himself...
Satisfied that foreign diplomats would have far less house-hunting trouble from now on, Protocol Chief Angier Biddle Duke admitted that there was still much to be done for Washington's own Negroes. Said he: "You shouldn't have to have a passport to get a decent place to live.'' Added a hopeful N.A.A.C.P. spokesman: "Ironic as it may be, if things open up for dark-skinned people from Africa, the American Negro is bound to benefit...
Next fortnight he plans to take off for 13 weeks in the States on another money-raising roundup. This time the bishop hopes to be traveling on a brand-new passport-a Brazilian one. After long pondering the matter, he applied for Brazilian citizenship. "After 17 years of beans, rice, and transfusions by Amazon mosquitoes, I am a Brazilian," he says. "The most important part of my past life was spent on the Amazon, and if I'm lucky the rest of it will be spent here, too. It may sound corny, but these are my people...