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...charming chap, he got along nicely with the U.S. State Department, which issued him a temporary visa. Struelens, now 34, set up shop on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, settled down to promote Tshombe's cause indefinitely...
...mind for anything but opera, and before Hitler took Poland she gushed to the press about his beautiful blue eyes. In 1941 she got a Nazi visa to return to occupied Norway, where she lived well on the profits of her husband's collaborationist lumber business. He died on the eve of his trial during the purge of the quislings in 1946. When Flagstad returned to the U.S., she was greeted with pickets, jeers and stink bombs in the concert halls of three cities. But she was innocent, if naive, and the world soon forgave her. And after...
Efrem Zimbalist Jr., playing the doctor's chief inquisitor, gets involved in the life of one of his subjects. "She's the first case history I've ever allowed to become more than a statistic," he says. His visa-vis is Jane Fonda, a test pilot's widow who thinks she is frigid; Zimbalist sets out to prove that...
There ensued a massive international legal tangle. In Israel, Soblen's lawyers challenged the legality of his expulsion, later applied in his behalf for a visa under the "law of return," which gives every Jew the right to enter Israel as an immigrant; both moves failed. In Britain, Soblen put in for a writ of habeas corpus and requested political asylum; after a jumble of unsuccessful appeals, and after the Israeli government-controlled El Al airline refused to fly him to the U.S.. the Home Office ordered him deported. Soblen appealed that order through the courts, got nowhere...
...last week, after 93 lonely days on the Pacific, he finally saw the fog rise over the Golden Gate Bridge, politely offered sake to the puzzled U.S. immigration officials who met him. The immigration service decided to grant a one-month visa, and Happy Horie popped off to see the sights, surrounded by the giggling infield of Osaka's touring girls' Softball team. Back home, Japanese officials had to decide whether to fine Horie for illegal exit or hail him as a national hero, the first Japanese to sail the Pacific solo...