Word: valid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pathetic figure. Somehow we must laugh at the things he does, not the man." Developing the character was a formidable and slow process. "The actor must find the way in which the text relates to his imagination; the fun is in fooling around with any number of equally valid ways of projecting a line...
...carried a birth certificate as proof of citizenship, a landing card and a customs declaration. He had no passport. Following a brief interrogation by immigration officers he was admitted to the U.S. But the next April a Florida grand jury indicted him for entry into the U.S. without a valid passport, allegedly a violation of the McCarran Act of 1952. On August 8 of the same year Worthy was found guilty and sentenced to three months imprisonment and nine months probation...
...Cuba . . . would be inimical to the national interest." He claimed the power to do this under the McCarran Act, which says in part, "After such proclamation [of a national emergency by the President] . . . it shall be unlawful for any citizen to depart from or enter the U.S. without a valid passport." Worthy has appealed his case which will be heard again this year in a federal circuit court. Doubtlessly there will be more people who seek to test the legality of a limit on the travel of Americans in peace time...
Louis Zemel, for example, has already challenged the ban without leaving his Connecticut home. Zemel, who already has a valid passport, applied to the State Department for permission to travel to Cuba. He cited his reason for going as self edification--a desire to inform himself first-hand of conditions in Cuba. In April, 1962, the State Department summarily rejected the application and subsequently turned down his request for a hearing. Citizen Zemel then sued the government for the right to travel freely to Cuba, naming Secretary Rusk and Attorney General Robert Kennedy as defendants...
...future travel-ban abusers. The students' defense will take a line similar to the one that Zemel will use. But there is an additional issue involved here. While Zemel never left the United States and Worthy was not carrying a passport, the fifty-nine students were all armed with valid U.S. passports. Can the government hold that the sojourn of an American on Cuban soil invalidates an otherwise valid passport...