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Scandinavian designers are popular too, particularly Alvar Aalto and Arne Jacobsen. The U.S. is now the world's biggest buyer of Aalto's undulating but plainspoken furniture. Five years ago, it was only the 10th biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Back To The '50S | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

GUATEMALA CITY: Pope John Paul arrived in Guatemala Monday amid intensive security precautions, just a day after what appeared to have been an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Guatemalan President Alvar Arzu. Hoping to speed up the sluggish peace negotiations that have done little to end the 30-year civil war, Pope John Paul is also waging what Mexico Bureau Chief Laura Lopez calls "the intrachristian battle for for hearts and minds". In recent years, the Catholic Church has lost followers in Guatemela to an increasingly popular evangelical movement. Lopez says: "There are only 281 diocesan priests, and 952 religious workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rounding Up The Flock | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

Usually, though, the Tree Falling In The Forest Ed Page gets filled with inane commentary on less weighty subjects. In 1987, for instance, Alvar Mattei wrote about his recently developed pinball addiction. Mattei acknowledged that as a child, he preferred to "vaporize little green monsters" and "blast space rocks...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: The Lost Wednesday | 11/27/1991 | See Source »

...Alvar J. Mattei...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Congratulations, Crimson Class of '88, And Good Luck | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

Contributors: Alvar J. Mattei, Julio Varela...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Can't Get R-E-S-P-E-C-T | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

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