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...posts are closely related, since over half of the "special students," those not under any particular branch of the University, are generally foreign students. As counsellor of foreign students, Miles acts as liaison between the students and the government, to be sure they comply with such regulations as visa and alien job laws...
...Form? Artist Barak met his fiancee, Oriah, soon after she arrived from Yugoslavia in 1951. The Orthodox Christian daughter of a Belgrade accountant, Oriah had been expelled by Tito's government for anti-Communist activities, had found Israel the only country ready to give her an immigration visa. But when Oriah and Moshe decided to marry, the local rabbi told them that Israeli law forbids Jews to marry Christians. The only way out was for Oriah to become a Jew, or for Barak to become a Christian-purely "as a matter of form." The young couple refused to start...
...Each person high in public life proposes a toast a little sweeter than the preceding one on Soviet-British-American friendship. It is amazing how those toasts go down past the tongues in the cheeks. After the banquets we send the Soviets another thousand airplanes, and they approve a visa that has been hanging fire for months. We then scratch our heads to see what other gifts we can send, and they scratch theirs to see what else they...
...have rustled into the folds of the Iron Curtain, few vanished more completely than Italian-born Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo. In late 1950 Pontecorvo, his head and perhaps his luggage crammed with hydrogen-bomb secrets gleaned from his U.S., Canadian and British research, landed in Helsinki without a Finnish visa. He cheerfully surrendered his passport, was not impolitely detained. Within an hour, Pontecorvo, his Swedish-born wife and their three children dropped out of sight. But passengers on the airline bus which had hauled the Pontecorvo family into the Finnish capital recalled that, as the bus entered the city...
Young Father Bissonnette had looked forward to a routine departure this spring, when another Assumptionist priest was to replace him. The sudden expulsion was obviously an act of retaliation for U.S. refusal to extend the visitor's visa of Metropolitan Boris, Exarch of the Russian Orthodox Church of North America, who left Manhattan last week after his prescribed stay of 60 days...