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...Communism's double-edged battle-axes was made an ambassadress in an appointment smacking strongly of nepotism. East Germany's first envoy to Yugoslavia: Lieut. General Eleonore ("Lore") Staimer, 51, dutiful daughter of East Germany's puppet President Wilhelm Pieck. She will probably take her Belgrade post next month, work hard at cultivating new amity between Tito and Soviet satellites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 23, 1957 | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...almost universal helpfulness and solicitude of West Indians make the islands a delightful place to visit. Almost everywhere one can find "guest houses" where one will be fed and bedded and regaled with local lore at anywhere from...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: The British West Indies: Federation | 11/15/1957 | See Source »

...Mexico searching for gold in the remotest hinterlands might be classified as picaresque and episodic, because it depends on external events and travel through the desert to give unity to the human drama which is at the center. Director John Huston creates a marvelously realistic atmosphere. His Mexican lore is superb, every minor detail of dress and speech and technique rings true without the costumed grandiosity that Hollywood usually purveys as local color. He does not give us pale demigods or villains with waxed black mustaches; the three men he presents us with are for the most part fully believable...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 11/12/1957 | See Source »

...Arthur Kallet co-authored a bestselling exposé of dangerous drugs hidden in popular products (100,000,000 Guinea Pigs), advertisers turned apoplectic and many a consumer turned pale. Kallet, a dark, intense young M.I.T.-trained engineer with a talent for pricking advertising humbug, had learned much of his lore by working with co-author Frederick J. Schlink's Consumers Research, Inc. which reported on the quality of consumer products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Consumer's Report | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...line that Khrushchev has to peddle is optimism-Russia need not fear enemies, because it can beat them; it will overtake capitalism's production achievements, and then-as he told the capitalists a few weeks ago-"we will bury you." His ignorance of capitalism comes from Marxist lore; his own headlong ideas for solving agriculture crises the "easy way" have often flopped. He himself acknowledges that the Russian economic experts-at whom he always jeers-are agreed that his plans for equaling the U.S. in food production in a couple of seasons are impossible. His brother Stalinists-Malenkov, Molotov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Childish Joy | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

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