Word: passport
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Bert Lance's continuing ties with his old friend Jimmy Carter are well known in the U.S., but on foreign trips the former budget chief can flash more tangible evidence of his White House clout: a diplomatic passport bearing the serial number X-000065 and the assertion, "The bearer is abroad on a diplomatic assignment for the Government of the United States of America." As it happens. Lance's most recent missions abroad, including a trip to London and the Middle East to help Arab interests angling for control of a $2.2 billion bank holding company in the Washington...
...tasks for the President. For example, Lance, among others, was given the job of phoning key businessmen to tell them-before the news was announced-that Carter had decided to nominate William Miller as Federal Reserve Board chairman. When the State Department tried to withdraw Lance's diplomatic passport after he left office, the White House intervened to let him keep it, because, some Carter aides insisted, the President might send Lance on foreign missions in the future...
...Houston Induction Center, he refused orders to step forward to join the Army. Within minutes the New York State Athletic Commission rescinded his boxing license; it took the World Boxing Association four hours to do its patriotic duty and take away his title. The State Department confiscated his passport so that he could not travel to nations willing to sanction his fighting. For his stand, Ali was convicted of draft evasion and given a five-year prison sentence. He started the lengthy process of appeal, and discovered that he could no longer get fights in the U.S. Conrad recalls...
...divorced husband in Manhattan. It was the last time she ever heard from them. When Mrs. Downer drove to the Los Angeles airport to pick them up, they were not aboard their designated flight. Ex-Husband Seth Gerchberg, it later developed, had remarried, liquidated his assets, obtained a passport and disappeared with the children. Since then Mrs. Downer and her second husband have spent $40,000 on a futile investigative legal odyssey that finally cost them their Pacific Palisades home and landed them on welfare. Increasingly disconsolate over having allowed the court-ordered Manhattan visit, Mrs. Downer now wonders...
...argument is that photography is not an art: it is a language, a neutral medium. Its analogue is not painting but paint. "Out of language, one can make scientific discourse, bureaucratic memoranda, love letters, grocery lists, and Balzac's Paris. Out of photography, one can make passport pictures, weather photographs, pornographic pictures, X-rays, wedding pictures and Atget's Paris...