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...satiric drawings of Saul Steinberg appeal to brows of all elevations. They have been admired in The New Yorker hung in some of the world's great museums, and reproduced on wallpaper fabrics and greeting cards. Last week 350 of them appeared in a book (The Passport-Harper; $5). Most books of cartoons pall pretty fast; thumbing them drubs the funnybone to numbness. With Steinberg's book: the drubbing is acute and varied enough to remain a slightly painful pleasure for an hour or so despite the fact that the book is clumsily laid out and padded with...
With little hope of leaving the country, Huang then tried to get his wife in. Since she had gone to Hong Kong before the Communists closed the borders of China, she was able to secure a Nationalist passport. Mrs. Huang also gained admission to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. All this done, they tried to obtain the necessary student visa from the State Department. Her application was denied. She was a "non-bonafide non-immigrant." Because Huang could not leave the country, the State Department feared that she would remain here with him after her course of study...
...christened the President Robert, the vessel was stocked with 1,068 bottles of vintage liquors, some 200,000 cigarettes, a supply of fine cigars and other necessities for gracious living on a long voyage. Then, on July 18, 1951, loaded with its complement of happy internationalists, each equipped with passport and currency bearing the signature of President Robert, it set sail, ostensibly to found a new nation in Africa...
...Passport to Disillusion. For one year, one month and 13 days, the President Robert roamed the seas, putting in at port after port to enable Theodorus to transact mysterious international business ashore. None of the ports saw fit to recognize the C.C.S.D. passports or currency, so Theodorus' fellow passengers were forced to stay on board. Some were restive and disgruntled because the President had put silver piping on their uniforms while only a favored few had gold, but as long as the provisions held out, they were happy enough. In time, however, liquor and money were replaced by boredom...
...item that cannot be overlooked or even postponed in planning summer travel abroad is a passport. Since ten days is the minimum period for having one unprocessed, immediate application is necessary. Passports can be obtained in Boston--with the aid of a certified birth certificate, two photographs, and a 21-year old witness who's known the applicant for three years--in the Main Post Office Building at Post Office Square...