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Pithy wisdom.
There was a major passport problem that developed over the
summer of 1971. While they were at the Ethiopian embassy
getting stamped for visas all of our passports were
destroyed in a fire. Somehow, some way, the State
Department was able to re-issue all of the passports.
However, there wasn't time to mail the new passports back
to us before departure so the Narums had to give each of us
our new passport in New York before we left for Rome. When
we got our new passports we discovered that someone
(probably Reidar Dittmann himself) had forged
our signatures (on the "Signature of Bearer" line) in
each one. (There never would have been time to get the
re-issued passports back to us and still have obtained
the necessary visas. A signature was necessary to get
a visa. Therefore a forgery would be required.) In
most cases, the forgeries were surprisingly good. In
some other cases, not so good. Ann frankly told a
dubious customs official in one of the countries that
her signature had been forged. He waved her through
anyway.
According to the official notice from the college our
required inoculations were: smallpox (or evidence of one in
previous three years), cholera, typhus, tetanus,
diphtheria, and yellow fever. Either the person who
assembled this list thought that typhus was the same as
typhoid, forgot to list it, or else the typhoid shot was
truly not required (hard to believe). Anyway, we all got
the typhoid fever inoculation. With variable results.