Word: visas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fairbank has not heard from the Army about his visa to work a year in Japan since they refused him entry last August. He has appealed the decision...
...Heureux is a member of the State Department could have been enough to earn him the chill on the hill. Added to that, his job is one calculated to stir the suspicion of every politico who keeps an eye on the grand old flag-as chief of the visa division, he has been responsible for the delicate and controversial business of admitting foreigners...
...finally got a job in the State Department. But during years abroad, as U.S. consul in Windsor, Ont., Stuttgart, Antwerp, Lisbon and Algiers, and as consul-general in Marseille, he did not forget his memories of Washington. When he came back to the capital as head of the visa division, he confined himself to rigid administration of the immigration laws, surrounded himself with experienced men, kept a policy of complete honesty and forthrightness with legislators. His policy worked out so well that even Nevada's crusty Pat McCarran, self-appointed watchdog of the gates to the U.S., once called...
...duties, according to husband Jean's testimony in court last week, a "lightning love" for the mayor struck her. She explained it all to Jean, who dutifully consulted his party superiors in Paris. Then he decided to give up Yvonne, provided that 1) the mayor get him a visa for Poland, "where I could work for my ideal"; and 2) the lovers keep their relationship respectable until he left...
Yvonne and Desvillettes agreed, but a few days later they left together for an inspection tour of a municipal summer camp. When they got home, Jean angrily confronted the mayor, demanding satisfaction of his honor-or at least his visa. The mayor told him to relax. "Such things," said Little Napoleon, "so often happen in the party." Jean pulled out a pistol and shot him dead. Later he explained what had driven him to the deed: "I was crazy. I couldn't sleep. I conducted the Metro like a sleepwalker...