Word: passport
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...former TIME Moscow bureau chief and a veteran of Richard Nixon's trips to Russia and China in 1972, Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter is as familiar with the Marxist way of life as anyone on our staff. He added a tropical socialist stamp to his passport recently as one of 29 journalists traveling to Cuba with Senators Jacob Javits and Claiborne Pell and remained on the island after the Senators' departure to report this week's World story on the status of Fidel Castro's revolutionary experiment...
...Mack Herron had carried a passport in his younger days, he could have listed his profession as loser. He majored in football at Kansas State, claimed that friction with his coach cost him a nomination for the Heisman Trophy, and quit school minus his degree. Pro offers were paltry, so Herron went to Canada. There he led the Canadian Football League in rushing but failed to awe the Winnipeg police. When they busted him for possession of marijuana, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers fired him. In 1973 he was back home in Chicago selling blue jeans for a living...
Doddering Prey. With extraordinary skill, Amis manages to have fun with such things as Marigold's fear of losing her memory, Zeyer's stroke-induced nominal aphasia. (Nouns escape him and periphrasis ensues, with a passport, for example, becoming "the thing you have to show when you leave a country.") Even Shorty's interior dialogues with his own bowels are put to comic use, along with the fact that old people are often mean and silly, and fall down easily. Amis pursues his doddering prey with tiny twists of plot: through the use of stink bombs, squirt...
Under an archaic law, any guest registering at a French hotel is required to fill out and sign a form, called la fiche, establishing his identity, address, occupation and, if a foreigner, his passport number. Fichisme is not only a chore for hoteliers, who must turn in the forms to the commissariat. For loving-if uncertified-couples, it can also be a mortifying ordeal, involving all the devices and evasions of a Feydeau comedy...
...invitation only. Yet Moon Se Kwang, 23, a Korean citizen who was a longtime resident of Osaka, Japan, somehow managed to pass himself off as a Japanese diplomat and to get in carrying a snub-nosed revolver. Moon had entered Korea nine days before on a Japanese passport issued in another man's name and had $1,200 in his pocket when captured. Japanese police said that he was unemployed and known as a radical leftist. The fact that Moon had lived in Japan ignited lingering Korean hostility toward the Japanese; resentment became more pronounced when it was learned...