Word: opium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important symbol of sensuality than the lifted skirt. As for the film hero's cure, it can no more be taken seriously than a tour of the haunted house in an amusement park, although Ross himself has not taken drugs for ten years. As the first of three opium operas that have been scheduled since narcotics became a suitable subject for Hollywood films (TIME, Dec. 24), Monkey on My Back suggests strongly that it is already high time Hollywood kicked the habit...
...Middle Africa and to unfold its wonders for the world -men prompted not by simple greed but by human compassion and scientific curiosity, drawn onward by the land itself. There was the discoverer of Victoria Falls, David Livingstone, the gentle Scottish medical missionary who went to Africa because an opium war in China kept him from achieving his ambition to go there. There was Henry Stanley, a British-born U.S. reporter, who went to Africa in search of a feature story for James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald and stayed to open up the whole Belgian Congo...
...covered toilet seats ($200 for ermine), imported opium bowls of hammered brass ($250), hairbrushes that cost more than $200, and a child's battery-operated Mercedes-Benz for only $400 were all on sale last week along swank Rodeo Drive in California's Beverly Hills. But the most symbolic luxury item that is putting the bloom on the Hollywood boom is the mink-covered TV set ($950). TV has become the star of a new Hollywood, and the movies merely a supporting player. Items: ¶A single Hollywood TV show, NBC's daily Matinee Theater, hires...
...Royal Premier Souvanna Phouma, who had come back empty-handed from a trip to Peking last year, replied: "How could we accept what has not been offered to us?" He knew better than anyone else that almost the whole Laotian budget, save for some revenue from legal and illegal opium exports, comes from...
...early days of the Sino-Japanese War he left home to fight with Chiang Kai-shek's armies, but he soon found that the more peaceable job of chauffeur for the French government in Saigon gave him more time to indulge his hobby of smuggling contraband and opium. At the outbreak of World War II, he deserted the French and sold his talents to the seemingly more successful Japanese. By 1943 he had become powerful enough to organize his own private army, which he called the Binh Xuyen and rented out to the side-French, Japanese or Communist-that...