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...revolutions this time of year," President Alfredo Stroessner contentedly remarked in the flower of Paraguay's summer; moreover, it is bad form in Latin America to plot just before Christmas. But last week, disregarding both the heat and all considerations of good taste, Strongman Stroessner's enemies tried to throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY: Christmas Plot | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

Artifacts of Achievement. For six triphammer days, while Premier Nikolai Bulganin traveled in genial, flower-showered near-silence at his side, the chief of Russian Bolshevism carried the brick-loaded Red hod through Burma. He heaved some bricks at the West, crashed others through the plate-glass facts of history. Some he carefully mortared into the structure of Communism's new policy in Asia. All in all, he must have accounted it a good week's work. The Burmans had not displayed the tumultuous enthusiasm of the Indians, but when the pair left Rangoon to return to India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Red Bricks | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...East Rutherford, NJ. plant, and soon afterward he had his first idea for a toy. One of Strauss's products was a toy horn that bleated "Mamma, Papa." Marx amplified the sound effects, redesigned the horn to resemble a carnation and brought it out as a paper lapel flower that doubled as a noisemaker at parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Little King | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

With the ovation of India's legislators ringing in their ears, the two Soviet leaders ventured jovially into the countryside. Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and another aide stayed behind to talk economic deals. Bedizened with flower garlands, they sloshed through fruit-juice and colored-water toasts; they kissed babies, rode gingerly atop lumbering elephants, released white doves, clowned in beaded hats and white Gandhi caps, allowed vermilion paste to be smeared across their proletarian foreheads, sat glumly with Nehru while they were made honorary Boy Scouts. They politely disregarded Neutralist Nehru's insistence that India is with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Rainmakers | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...knows whether impetuous Sergo Ordzhonikidze got a chance to raise hell in the Politburo, but he died shortly thereafter. In February 1937 he was buried with great pomp in the Kremlin wall, his flower-decked bier borne by Stalin. Molotov, Voroshilov and other top commissars. It was cautiously given out that he had died of heart failure, but rumor has consistently said since that he was murdered. In Russia his name became symbolic of the wreckage done to Soviet economy by Stalin and his gang in their struggle for power. Last week the Soviet government (run by Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Whodunit, Party Style | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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