Word: visaed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Blunter yet was the Nationalists' unexplained canceling of the visa of NBC Correspondent James Robinson while he was in the U.S. for a news program. Apparent reason: following Robinson's filmed TV interview in May with Chiang Kaishek. NBC angered the Generalissimo by noting he had ducked such questions as what would happen to his government if the U.S. recognized Red China...
...State Department ended the academic stir caused by Protestant-oriented Harvard Divinity School's recent appointment of British Historian Christopher Dawson to a new chair in Roman Catholic studies. The department denied Dawson a visa-"for a strictly medical reason," which it refused to disclose. The reason: pulmonary tuberculosis, diagnosed by a U.S. Public Health physician who examined Dawson, 68, in London. Dawson's British physicians disagree with the diagnosis, have given him a clean bill of health, which he still hopes may change the State Department's mind...
...good life for the few." The U.S. has also suffered prestige setbacks from Sputnik and Little Rock, and from its take-'em-for-granted attitude toward its hemisphere neighbors. Latin Americans widely credit the U.S. with favoring hated strongmen; Venezuela is currently irked because Washington gave a U.S. visa to ex-Dictator Marcos Peérez Jime...
...children's nursery where they had never heard of diapers. He reached some of the top brass on the merry-go-round of diplomatic receptions, quizzed dozens of functionaries who are not normally tapped by Western newsmen, and with a rarely granted 20-day visa extension went by excursion steamer and plane to the antique fastnesses of Russian Asia...
...subversion, moral turpitude. Neither Pérez Jiménez nor Estrada is anywhere near broke; the strongman is said to have squirreled away $250 million. Neither has Communist or Fascist ties, nor has either plotted against the succeeding government (the ground for denying Perón a U.S. visa). Neither is technically guilty of moral turpitude, i.e., convicted of a crime. Both reportedly expect to settle in or near Washington...