Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the estimated 600,000 Americans who will travel abroad this season will be many thousands of TIME readers. We were pleased to learn from surveys at international airports and ship piers that just about half the passengers read TIME. Some of these are seasoned travelers and many others are off on their first trip across the ocean. Both the seasoned and the inexperienced tell us that they often take tips from our pages about where to go and what to see abroad. One of the old hands took off by plane last week with our last story on Pablo...
...decision outlined the limits of federal control: "The right to travel . . . is a natural right subject to the rights of others and to reasonable regulation under law. A restraint imposed by the Government of the United States upon this liberty therefore must conform with the provision of the Fifth Amendment that 'No person shall be . . . deprived of . . . liberty . . . without due process...
Since 1950, more than 460 Americans (including Paul Robeson and Playwright Arthur Miller) have been refused passports to go abroad. Last week a three-man U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the Government may not arbitrarily deprive Americans of a fundamental freedom, the right to travel...
Last week the court drew the line itself. Unanimously, the court struck down the executive claim to plenary powers. "The Government may not arbitrarily restrain the liberty of a citizen to travel," said the decision, written by Circuit Judge Charles Fahy, onetime U.S. Solicitor General. "Discretionary power does not carry with it the right of its arbitrary exercise...
...Cosmic rays," said Professor H. V. Neher of Caltech, "have for years been regarded as a means of justifying travel to remote areas of the world." Dr. Neher's latest ray-hunting junket was to one of the world's least seductive places, the North Magnetic Pole in barren arctic Canada. Last week he told a Pasadena meeting of the American Physical Society about the results of the trip...