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Next morning on the German-Czech border, Vishinsky stepped out of the comfortable Orient Express, went aboard a dingy second-class Czech train decorated with a huge red star. A German border official noted that Mrs. Vishinsky's hair, described as black in her passport, had become a coppery red in Paris...
...record for peregrination probably goes to Jim Bell, who stepped out of the Korean fire to cover the Middle East's sizzling frying pan. He cabled: "I've added 42 pages to my passport's normal 48 pages. Security functionaries in this part of the world love my passport. They play it like an accordion. I've made eight trips to Iran, seven to Egypt, six to Syria, three each to Turkey and Iraq, two each to Greece and Bahrein, one each to Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar ... My wife wistfully wishes...
This hour-long escape sequence achieves a rising level of suspense as Howard uses his espionage training in car stealing, judo, passport forging, and disguise to foil both the police and his fellow agents. In the Liverpool warehouse climax villainy gets its gory reward, and "Clouded Yellow" establishes itself as unusually good entertainment...
Preposterous Charge. Congress finds the Shipley operation an awesome example of administrative efficiency. She resists political pressure with a rocklike stubbornness-she once told an Administration big shot: "You can fire me, but you can't make me issue a passport to the wrong person." But at the same time, she invariably gives Congressmen rapid-fire service when they ask it for worthy constituents...
...Senator McCarran's blast last week, Mrs. Shipley knew just what to say: "Preposterous!" That was all that was needed. "I want to make it abundantly clear," an aghast Pat McCarran cried the next day, "that the laxity . . . is not chargeable against [Mrs. Shipley] the chief of the passport division. It is apparent that [she] has simply not had the cooperation of the topflight officials of the department...