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...monolithic state in which all opponents must, of necessity and for public instruction, be physically annihilated sooner or later depends at present on a rotund, cup-nosed, mica-eyed man who was bustling and belly-laughing his way through Czechoslovakia last week. Xikita Khrushchev, the muzhik with the mostest. was acting like a champion who has dusted off the challenger. Overflowing with friendship and good humor, he bussed pale, frigid Czech Communist Leader Antonin Novotny on both cheeks and rode through Prague, which was tapestried with flags and banners and huge portraits of himself, on the jump seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Quick & the Dead | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

...tempting for Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 34, whose intentions sometimes exceed his experience. His fragment of fractured French Indo-China, a country the size of Kansas, was in line to receive economic aid from both West and East. As usual, the U.S. was first with the mostest ($88 million in two years). New hotels, cabarets and bungalows gave a festive air to Pnompenh, the capital, while under the mango trees, cruising Tampa-blue four-hole Buicks bore saffron-robed bonzes (Buddhist priests) to gilded pagodas. By an ingenious integration, American dredges were soon filling in ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Corn & Peanuts | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

While Cairo's foreign press corps worriedly met to plan some defense against expulsion, Correspondent Stevenson flew to Rome and, in the black-and-white Japanese kimono that he wears while writing, pounded out the reply to his office's urgent cable to FILE STORY SOONEST MOSTEST BESTEST. Star readers soon learned in glittering detail that Stevenson first offended the Egyptians by trying twice in the same day-and getting arrested both times-to get an interview with Ex-Premier Mohammed Naguib, under house arrest 15 miles out of Cairo. What riled the Egyptians even more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Star's Star | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...develop underdeveloped nations is one field where the U.S. got there fustest and with the mostest. Example: An increasing number of Indian students have been invited to visit Russia, but none has stayed to study. Fifteen thousand Indian students are now studying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Warm-Water Friendship | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...oddballs as ever evaded a Saroyan play. There is Bill Kilk, "the twelfth-richest man in the country," who manufactures "KwiK, The Lightnin' LaKsative" and "Hairum-Skarum (takes the bristles off women's legs)." There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue. There is the wily "Eye." a private detective who flunked his FBI physical "because of dirty fingernails." and acts as a special investigator for the "Committee on the Disposition of Useless Documents." And there is Millionaire Kilk's man Friday, whose English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pay Dirt | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

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