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Purrs & Grumbles. Prodding by U.S. Travel Service Director Voit Gilmore has cut visa-getting time, an old bugaboo for U.S.-bound tourists. (Says one ad: "You'll have your visa in just 20 minutes.") And in another ad a picture of a fountain pen is captioned: "This is all you need to register at any hotel, motel or inn anywhere in the U.S.A." (In most of Europe, passports must be presented at hotel desks.) But one poster showing an impressive aerial view of one of Los Angeles' clover-leafs had an unhappy effect. In Britain, the reaction...
Though Lenin really did hold Martov in deep affection, Martov never went underground, and spoke at a meeting of the Moscow Soviet a month after his supposed escape. He asked for an exit visa and left legally via Estonia. Izvestia's version proved the aptness of a Russian proverb Khrushchev has known since childhood: "Better a clever lie than the dull truth...
...Kondratiev, professor of atmospheric physics, will arrive Monday and stay at Dunster House during the weeks he will spend here. The State Department extended the visa of Kondratiev, who came to the United States to participate in an outer space research conference in Washington...
...least welcome guests are journalists; Caribbean Bureau Chief Sam Halper got into Cuba last winter, and tried to get in again recently to gather material for this week's cover story on Cuban Communist Bias Roca. But he could get no answer to his repeated requests for a visa. Instead. Halper had to confine himself to hopping around between Florida. Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, interviewing some of the 200,000 Cubans who have fled since Castro took over. He got a great deal of material, but we were still eager to get our own man into Havana...
Having zipped over the U.S. at 17,750 m.p.h. during his 17-orbit spin last August, Soviet Cosmonaut Major Gherman Titov, decided it was time for a more leisurely look. Titov, whose 25-hr. 18-min. flight remains the world's record, requested a visa to attend an international space conference that opens in Washington next week. There he may get to meet a fellow space traveler, who is scheduled to talk about his own three-orbit flight: U.S. Astronaut Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn...