Word: passports
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only can happen, but is happening. A high lottery number in favorable circumstances may be an ill-gotten passport, but it is a passport nonetheless. Perhaps a fourth of the students at Harvard can safely drop out; some already have. All of a sudden dropping out involves not wishing bat acting. And now, because its vocabulary has abruptly assumed the present tense, it is worth more discussion...
...discount. Escaping from England cost him $45,000 for a small boat, hiding places on either side of the Channel and escorts. Abroad he visited a plastic surgeon for expensive ($7,000) alterations to his face and fingertips. He spent 15 months in hiding, then bought a fake passport and flew to Australia as Terrence Furminger. From Adelaide he sent back $2,500 for other passports and air fare for Wife Charmain and their two sons. The last of the lolly went for furniture, appliances and toys for the brick bungalow that Biggs rented, for $26.88 a week...
...happy" in Algeria, where they are presumably still collecting royalties from Soul on Ice and his other writings. Cleaver says he is able to move virtually at will in Communist countries, using nothing but his California driver's license and an FBI wanted poster in lieu of a passport. He maintains that he is neither lonely in exile nor out of touch with the U.S., which he still considers home. "I am as involved as ever in the United States, and I fully intend to continue functioning in the struggle against the oppressive system there. I intend to participate...
...Winfred Gregory, 31, from Cheraw, S.C., were speaking loud and clear. Gregory, a boyhood friend of Major Thomas Middleton, one of the accused, flew to Saigon last week to handle the case. Authorities in Washington had not been helpful, groused Gregory. "All they were giving me," he said, "was passport instructions." Gregory claims to have it on good authority that last year some 160 double agents were executed, or ordered executed, by Americans. Because of this, the harsh treatment meted out to the eight baffles observers in Saigon and Congressmen in Washington. Gregory wonders aloud...
...features that followed, Wayne earned his head-'em-off-at-the-passport, but his salary and his reputation remained minuscule. In one he suffered the ultimate indignity as Singin' Sandy, the screen's first melodious cowpoke. The hoarse opera was swiftly dubbed, and Wayne returned to the role of Speakin' Star. The movies soon found an acceptable substitute: fella named Gene Autry...