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Englishmen once again walked the streets of Cyprus freely, and in the capital of Nicosia long-idle café waiters scurried to serve capacity crowds. For the first time in months there even were queues outside the theaters near "Murder Mile,"−downtown Ledra Street which E.O.K.A., the Greek Cypriot underground, had so long terrorized with its murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: The First Move | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...affair beginning at 2 p.m., and dinner stretches from 11 p.m. into the small hours of the morning. Among upper-class Spaniards and those who aspire to that state, too much interest in work is considered bad form; if business must be done, let it be concluded in a caf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Shocking Changes | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

A.B.C., flushed with victory from a recent campaign against hornblowing, unsettled a lot of café conversations by proclaiming: "This business of not working, of having lunch at teatime and dinner when one should be in bed, constitutes a sorry picture and is neither healthy nor ethical." Day after day. A.B.C. took up logical, historical, medical, ethical and demographic arguments for a change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Shocking Changes | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...country's rebel is apt to be another's patriot, but the word terrorist can be properly applied to those who throw bombs into crowded cafés or churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 23, 1956 | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...Café de la Paix article was very interesting; however; the information respecting the Pam-Pam restaurants is inaccurate. I alone am responsible for the creation of the name, as well as the creation of the Pam-Pam restaurants. I am still sole owner for the rights of the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 25, 1956 | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

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