Word: visas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deering, Milliken & Co., Inc., whose "Visa" is a blend of 55% Dacron and 45% wool, introduced another new fabric, "Lo-rette," made of a blend of 55% Orion and 45% wool, which it predicted would be a big seller for women's sportswear and suits when marketed next fall...
...entirely personal: to visit an ailing friend in the U.S. The Communists in the Ministry of the Interior, more interested in politics than in friendship, cannot decide whether to let him go. For that matter, the U.S. consulate is puzzled over whether he ought to be allowed a visa...
Aims of the conference are to provide travelers with detailed data to enrich their experience and prevent errors caused by haphazard planning. Topics such as low cost transportation, student tours, and work camps will be elaborated. Also the practical points on currency exchange, pasport and visa requirements, language, clothing, and bicycling, will be considered...
...Saigon, after a reporting tour of Indo-China, British Novelist Graham (The End of the Affair) Greene applied for a U.S. visa, ran smack into the clause of the McCarran exclusion act which automatically forbids U.S. entry to any alien who was ever a member of a totalitarian party. Greene's difficulty: during his Oxford days in the early '20s, he joined the Communist Party "as a prank," paid dues for a month before he dropped out, later to become a soul-searching Roman Catholic. In Washington, the State Department turned the Greene case over to the Justice...
...American Baptist Foreign Mission Society promptly ordered Dr. Phelps home to explain (TIME, Jan. 1, 1951). In Manhattan last week, 4½ months after he finally got an exit visa from China, Dr. & Mrs. Phelps reported to the board. The directors wanted to know why he had made his pro-Communist remarks, as well as a statement that the South Koreans, not the Communists, were the aggressors in Korea...