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...force Perón either to come home and face his opponents-and enemies-or to drop out of the race, President Lanusse recently decreed that all presidential candidates must be in the country by Aug. 25 and remain there until the election. Perón's passport has been revalidated, and Lanusse has offered to pay his fare if necessary. "Personally," says the President, "I feel he just hasn't got the guts...
...need a passport." In his books he tampered with scores to make his efforts seem more brilliant. Upon losing a game, he would sometimes hurl his king across the room. Married five times and a heavy drinker, he appeared at one exhibition and urinated on the floor. He died destitute in 1946, clutching a pocket chess...
...William Burroughs, Satirist Terry Southern and Poet Allen Ginsberg. This time the Esquire group is to include Guenrikh Borovik, 43, former U.S. correspondent for the Soviet news agency Novosti and writer for Izvestia and Pravda. He will team with Jack Chen, 63, a Eurasian who travels on a Trinidad passport and wrote for Peking Review and People's Daily while living in mainland China from 1950 until last year. To round out this summer's roster, Esquire will have the services of Novelist William Styron...
...problem was that during the week that Freidman spent on Okinawa, that island reverted from U.S. occupation to Japanese possession. Thus it was a domestic flight on which he returned to Tokyo. Since he was merely traveling from one Japanese island to another, no customs man would stamp his passport, and since his passport was not marked, no one would issue him a new alien-registration card...
Freidman as a result is caught in a bureaucratic mesh; until it is eventually settled, he is unable to travel because his passport is not in order. He thought at first of solving the impasse by flying to a nearby country and coming back into Japan officially. But, of course, since there is no record that he is in Japan, there is no way that his passport can be stamped to allow...