Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jack Dowling, TIME'S one-man bureau working out of Singapore, covered 27,000 miles in Southeast Asia this year, collected a bulging passport of 140 pages. It is not unusual, he says, to see smoke pouring through an air vent into the cabin from some source or other. "You notice the steward coming slowly down the aisle distributing candy. He keeps a worried eye on the vent as he comes abreast of it and closes it with the theatrical air of a conspirator. You join the conspiracy in an airplane whisper: 'Do you think the plane...
...them assembled in Mexico (in U.S.-owned branch plants). From hundreds of sleek factories on the outskirts come office furniture, cosmetics and toilet articles, trucks and buses, cortisone and refrigerators. Along broad Insurgentes Avenue, one of the hemisphere's brightest shopping centers, Mexicans can buy a Jaguar, a cabin cruiser, a Paris gown, a set of tubular-steel garden furniture...
...presidential party turned off Route 40 into a side road a mile outside town, and pushed on down the lane to the 1,900-acre ranch of Danish-born Aksel Nielsen, an Eisenhower family friend and financial adviser since the early '30s. Making an immediate break for his cabin, Ike shucked his tweed jacket and flannel trousers for old slacks and a fishing jacket. His Secret Service guards underwent an even more dramatic sartorial transformation. Stocking up on blue jeans and flannel shirts in local stores, they also bought wide, tooled-leather belts and, as a final Western touch...
Before a secluded cabin, 8,000 ft. up in California's Sierra Nevada range, stood two bare-chested men basking in the mid-afternoon sun. Not far away, hidden by the underbrush, 16 other men closed in silently around the cabin. They looked like unshaven, jean-clad campers, but they were actually FBI agents, armed with pistols and carbines. When they had completed their circle, at a prearranged moment, five sedans carrying reinforcements rattled down a dirt road to a point 20 yards from the cabin. Slowly the G-men converged on the cabin, covered the two sunbathers, routed...
...kept a plentiful supply of canned goods, liquor and beer on hand, and $2,000 in sugar-bowl money. When she was arrested, she had just washed a man's white sweater and spread it neatly on a towel to dry. The men stuck close to the cabin, avoided the neighbors, whiled away the time with TV and table tennis. Thompson and Steinberg had gone to some pains to alter their appearances. Thompson, who had gained about 30 Ibs., had sprouted a foppish mustache, tinted his hair and mustache strawberry blond, his eyebrows roan red. Steinberg had a fresh...