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...that influenced the formation of a "Continental mind." Hard, cunning, and loose-living, the mountain men develop as a strange breed with a passion to destroy the country they loved. They trapped foolishly with no idea of the future. In their society a man's ability was his only passport to a raw life that revolved around beaver, whiskey, and squaws. The mountain men opened a territory and thereby insured their own extinction. Contrast the trappers with Nat Wyeth, a shrewd New England merchant with big ideas. 'On paper Wyeth was approximating John Jacob Astor." Theory wouldn't work...
...Rush. At 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Foreign Minister German Vegara called Cunja to his office, accused him of Communist plotting, handed him his passport. Government police hustled him to Los Cerrillos airport, where a plane was warming up to take him to Argentina. While Cunja was being told off, detectives knocked at the Hotel Carrera suite of Dalibor Jakasa, secretary of the Yugoslav legation in Buenos Aires, who had been in Santiago for only a few days. Jakasa was booted...
...summer school last June and shortly turned up in Paris, disappeared last from a Washington, D.C. school but got bagged again. He entered a Hollywood hotel one midnight, settled down in the lobby when he could not pay in advance. When cops woke him, the Prince produced a passport as identification; but it was not his (he had borrowed it). He was briskly hauled off to the station house. Eventually delivered into the strong hands of an older brother, the student Prince had his pockets stuffed with extra socks, two pennies, and a $1.50 hunting knife, which he had taken...
...their hands was placed a piece of paper with a prayer for the repose of their souls. This prompted an early Moscow correspondent, who had discovered that there was less freedom of movement in Moscow than anywhere in Europe, to report: "The Russ, when he dies, hath his passport to St. Nicolas buried with...
...been sentenced to a year in jail and fined $1,000 for contempt of Congress. Last week, a month and a day after he was brought to trial in Wiashington's District Court, a federal jury of seven men and five women found him guilty of passport fraud. Maximum penalty: five years and $5,000 fine...