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...will be admitted to the British market without quota restrictions. Swiss hoteliers rubbed their hands at the prospect of British tourists with enough money to spend a week or more instead of a few days. "A British accent" glowed London's Daily Express, "will no longer be a passport to the worst table in the restaurant...
...throne. In Geneva she announced that she would return to Cairo, where she could file for divorce. (Moslem wives may shed husbands by petitioning the Sharia, the Moslem personal court, for divorce on one of four grounds: infidelity, mistreatment, desertion or impotence.) Naguib had issued her an ordinary passport after a cabled personal appeal from Mme. Sadek, asking him to "help two lonely ladies in a foreign country...
...overlook or postpone obtaining your passport for summer travel abroad, or almost anywhere out of the country. Passports can be applied for in Boston at the Department of State, Passport Agency, in the main Post Office Building at Post Office Square (Liberty 2-5600). Applications must be made in person and at least a month should be allowed for processing...
Bermuda, of course, is still the ultimate in enjoyment of spring travel. Parties, dances, and sports tournaments of College Week, convenient proximity to Boston and New York, low priced tours, and no passport requirements make Bermuda truly a paradise isle for spring vacation travelers. A few late reservations are still available through local Bermuda representatives...
...Prokofiev, the son of the manager of a large estate, was no political revolutionary. In 1918 he got himself a passport and took off across Siberia and the Pacific for the U.S. For the next 15 years he was a free-footed citizen of the world-composing operas (his Love for Three Oranges was premiered in Chicago in 1921), ballets (he collaborated with Paris' famed Impresario Serge Diaghilev for 15 years) and piano concertos which he himself triumphantly played on tour. At 40, he ranked with Strauss, Stravinsky and Schoenberg as one of the world's most challenging...