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...wise to carry identity papers at all times. On the whole, though, Italy is a tourist's legal paradise. Customs officials are inclined to overlook illegal liquor and cigarettes (more than two botties or two cartons); a 90-day stay can be extended in minutes; an expired passport gets a 48-hour grace period; traffic cops beam at addled tourists and dole out multilingual warning notes rather than parking tickets. Even disorderly tourists get breaks unknown to disorderly natives, and a robbed tourist is likely to get faster police aid in Italy than in almost any other country...
Nakasa's own life is a case in point. An editor of the South African magazine Drum, a weekly columnist, and possibly South Africa's leading African journalist, Nakasa was denied a passport by the South African government which would have enabled him to arrive at the University in time to accept a Nieman Fellowship. Instead, he was given an exit permit, allowing him to come (he arrived two months late), but at the expense of his citizenship. Should he try to return to South Africa, Nakasa faces trial and up to three years' imprisonment--all because of his journalistic...
...prove it, Simon extricated from his U.S. passport a copy of his agreement with Christie's. He opened the paper, pointed to it and read: "When Mr. Simon is sitting down, he is bidding. If he bids openly, he is also bidding. When he stands up, he has stopped bidding. If he sits down again, he is not bidding unless he raises his finger. Having raised his finger, he is bidding, until he stands up again...
...pools of dried blood, and the walls were a smear of bloodstains. Heavy tracks of blood led into a second room, where police found a locked yellow trunk containing a hammer and the battered body of a man. The head was crushed to a pulp. An air ticket and passport thumbprint identified him as Herberts Cukurs, 65, a resident of São Paulo, Brazil...
Establishment of the new service, called "Intermedic," was announced by Manhattan's Dr. Richard E. Winter. Intermedic subscribers will get a passport-size directory that includes a list of the plan's 154 approved doctors and two pages on which the traveler should fill in his own medical data with the aid of his personal physician. This information will not only help the overseas doctor but will guard against the patient's getting a shot of a medicine to which he is allergic. The foreign doctors have agreed to a fee schedule for initial visits: not more...