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Asahi devoted 10,000 words to the plight of Japan's 3,000,000 eta (literally: "very dirty") untouchables. The eta class, also known as hinin (not human), includes most of the Japanese nation's leatherworkers, shoemakers, butchers and slaughterhouse workers. Though the etas were formally abolished as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Glass House, Dirty Windows | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

Tashlin's story is a fable of Madison Avenue: Rock Hunter's success in making Stay-Put Lipstick, his ad agency's biggest account, stay put. Hunter's own dream of success: to rise from his untouchable caste as TV commercial writer to possession of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

"The important characteristic of this fermentation," said the Zurich paper, "is that it does not take place among the voiceless masses, but among the party elite-the intellectuals, the progressive workers, the workers of the new caste of technical managers. Communists as well as non-Communists are sick of dragging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SATELLITES: The Quavering Chorus | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

Even India's Prime Minister Nehru was dragged into the international to-do over the "business relationship" between Italian Film Director Roberto Rossellini and his connecting-suite neighbor in Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel, high-caste Siren Sonoli Das Gupta, 27, wife of an Indian movie director. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 3, 1957 | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

Scratch for Pomp. Nehru and Vice President Radhakrishnan hope to hack away the middle-aged fat that, is debilitating the once lean and lithe party of Gandhi. Congress has grown complacent with victory, corrupt, nepotistic, aloof from the masses and rent with internal squabbles. Although Nehru bitterly condemns voting by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Put Out No Flags | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

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