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For nearly 20 years the most agile, deft and eely politician in Southeast Asia's luxuriant political quagmire had been Thailand's steel-willed, soft-voiced Dictator Pibulsonggram. Pibul's favorite color is green, and he found it attractive in everything from U.S. dollars to neckties and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: Flight of the Thunderbird | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

The fastest-growing segment of the West German auto industry (world's No. 2, after the U.S.) is the midget-car business. Last week crowds at the opening of the 38th International Automobile Fair in Frankfurt hurried past the halls filled with big, sleek U.S. models, slowed down only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Buy-Eyed Over Bugs | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Outside Janssens' room are eight letter boxes, each containing the mail from the order's eight "assistancies." These letters, sometimes as many as 20,000 a day, are summarized paragraph by paragraph by secretaries, and annotated by the Assistant of the area involved before a final reply goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Army in Black | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

"Achtung, Achtung!" In a Hamburg suburb, Ollenhauer lambasted German rearmament with the particularly hollow charge that it was lowering Germany's standard of living, then motored out to the East-West border village of Eichholz on what he hoped would be a dramatic demonstration of his concern for German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Sign of the Sausage | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

Hier ist Ollenhauer." A few hundred mildly curious villagers heeded the Achtung, listened to Ollenhauer in a chatty little speech about reunification, while nervous border guards watched through field glasses to see if the Communist Volkspolizei across the border thought Ollenhauer, was going to attempt reunification on the spot. Nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Sign of the Sausage | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

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