Word: passport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With a father who began his working life as Assistant Sub-Deputy Opium Agent, fifth grade, and ended it Sub Deputy Opium Agent first grade he had reason to. His childhood was oppressively dominated by the parental push to win a scholarship and get a public school diploma a passport to more secure membership in the upper middle class...
...travel to the U.S. for a monthlong lecture tour (TIME, Dec. 18). But early one morning last week, a consular official from the Soviet embassy in Washington, Yuri Galishnikov, called on Chalidze at his Manhattan hotel and amiably asked him to identify himself. When Chalidze handed over his passport, Galishnikov deftly passed it to an aide, who pocketed it. Chalidze was then told that he had been stripped of his citizenship by order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet two days earlier, and was now forbidden to return home...
...from the teeth of gas-chamber victims. Bormann, said Farago, had consigned the hoard to Argentina by U-boat before the war ended. The fugitive Nazi finally reached Argentina in 1948 through the assistance of Eva Perón, who used contacts in the Vatican to get him a passport issued under the ironical Jewish name of Eliezer Goldstein. For making Bormann feel at home in Argentina, Farago claimed, Dictator Juan Perón extracted from Bormann's booty a ransom of nearly $200 million...
According to Farago, Velasco had been tracking Bormann for nine years; he was called to Mendoza, near the Chilean border, by an immigration inspector who became suspicious of a man carrying a passport in the name of Ricardo Bauer. When Velasco confronted the man, he had no doubt that he was Bormann. But while Velasco sought instructions from Buenos Aires, the man slipped away. Why did Velasco, supposedly a supersleuth, not act on his own initiative? Newsmen in Buenos Aires tried to find him to ask him. But Argentine security officials said that he did not exist. (Farago told TIME...
...improve security, the pilots believe, governments and airlines alike are going to have to spend more money-at least $150 million during the first year. One expensive device currently being considered is a worldwide computer system, containing the names and descriptions of the world's 30 million passport holders, for the use of international airports. The computer would permit the rapid screening of passengers from all countries that participated in the plan, while others would be carefully frisked...