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...Admire. In the beginning, when Nasser's Free Officers overthrew corrupt and fat King Farouk, and shortly thereafter displaced Mohammed Naguib, their pipe-smoking front man, Nasser, an assistant postmaster's son and professional soldier, seemed a bright hope for a new Egypt. His smile was disarming; he confessed he knew little about running a country, but he was a plain man, plainly honest, eager to end the effete and selfish rule of the pashas. Fighting in the losing Palestine war he became convinced that his country's real problem was not Israel but the poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: NASSER: THE OTHER MAN | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...Oakes to San Francisco's De Young Museum, where they will be unveiled this week. Major works in La Tour's early style, they are tentatively dated 1620, when La Tour would have been only 27. St. Louis' City Art Museum's Young Man with Pipe, recently acquired for $28,000, dates from La Tour's mid-40s when he had fully developed his technique of molding his figures with light, setting them against a background of elemental night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Out of the Attic | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...cost of transporting the coal plus full repayment of the investment in 15 years, is expected to be about half the $3.32 a ton it now costs to ship coal to Cleveland by rail. Although the pipe is a possible competitor of the railroads, three of them-the Pennsylvania, New York Central and Nickel Plate-allowed the pipeline to cross their right of ways in return for an option to buy 45% of the pipeline-operating company's stock. If the pipeline proves trouble-free when full-scale operation starts April 7, the industry expects it to be widely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Cost-Cutting in Coal | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...Maza, "committed suicide" last month in a Ciudad Trujillo jail cell after leaving a note confessing he had knocked Murphy off a cliff into shark-infested waters. When the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Ciudad Trujillo implied doubt of their story, by testing the shower pipe from which De la Maza was supposed to have hanged himself, the furious Dominicans complained to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: The Dictator's Long Arm | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...Hall is the pride of many of the members, particularly because it is the home of one of the largest pipe organs in New England, implanted high on the side wall. It's not used very much or for anything in particular, but it's there to talk about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Club of Boston | 2/20/1957 | See Source »

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