Word: visas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pierre Emmanuel, French poet, was last year refused an entry visa to the United States to teach at Wellesley College...
...next leader of the band was Visa Manjaria, a religious man. He went to his favorite temple and promised to carry on the feud, and to bring the god 100 pounds of patel noses. Stocky, thirtyish, with a massive black beard, Visa led his band of ten dacoits in raid after raid on the villages near his forest, looting the homes and shops of the patels, and cutting off their noses. The villagers liked Visa, because the patels were a privileged group, and the villagers were glad to see their bosses' noses cut off. Visa announced his raids beforehand...
...last the government put a price on Visa's head. It spent 500 rupees a day trying to track him down with horses, jeeps and machine guns. This month, it spread a rumor that a large sum of money was being kept in the forester's office in a village deep in the heart of the Gir Forest. When Visa and his band dashed into the village, they were caught in ambush, and Visa and three henchmen were killed. In triumph the police laid out the bodies before the unhappy villagers, and took them to the bank...
...Consul, Menotti's first three-acter, has a plot that is just as drab as The Medium's: the story of a desperate woman in a police state who commits suicide when her last attempt to get a visa fails. It is longer and not so compact, but it packs more than The Medium's share of melodramatic punch. It opened on Broadway with a $100,000 advance sale; by last week all seats were sold out through June...
World Citizen Garry Davis, 28, who tore up his U.S. passport in 1948, seemed to have postponed his search for "oblivion." Back in his native land on a French immigrant's visa, Garry married brunette Audrey Peters, 21, an ex-Hollywood dancer whom he had courted by mail. They met for the first time after he landed from the America three weeks ago. First, Garry and Audrey said their vows in the city hall plaza at Ellsworth, Me., while 500 townspeople joined in chanting a "unification of love" service which Garry had written, printed and passed around. Asked about...