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...Time for Masking. For all Dior's success, Paris couture in general is in parlous economic shape. Eastern European markets (except for exiled royalty) have dried up. Currency and import restrictions have cut purchases from Britain, Spain, Scandinavia, Brazil and Argentina. Since war's end eleven major houses have closed (among them: Molyneux, Lelong, Paquin, Worth, Schiaparelli). The big houses make their money on sales to the U.S. and abroad, or on sidelines-perfume, hosiery, etc. But most depend on private individual customers, who even at Dior account for more than 60% of the total dress sales. Nowadays...
Hungary's revolt had thrown into doubt a scheduled Bulganin-Khrushchev swing through Scandinavia. Last week, as a sort of second best, B. and K. accepted an invitation to visit Finland in the spring. Cracked Khrushchev: "Spring is the best time of the year because love is then at its strongest." Meanwhile, Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov was visiting India. Although Nehru pointedly spent more time in the company of another visitor, his old friend Lady Mountbatten, Zhukov had a profitable week riding an elephant and showing Nehru's tough Indian cadets how to use a bayonet...
...would be loans to pay for U.S. oil imports, not gifts. Furthermore, Nasser was so far proving disconcertingly able to run the canal by himself. As long as the canal remained open, the smaller nations were unwilling to shoulder the extra cost of sending their ships around the cape. Scandinavia, West Germany and Italy were unhappy at the thought of jeopardizing their trade with the Arab world. Most argued that a boycott would cost them more than it would cost Nasser...
...intercontinental migraines, to say nothing of frequent bannings and occasional confiscations, TLI now delivers some 400,000 copies of TIME each week to every corner of the earth, all before the issue date. Among these foreign subscribers, the most common name worldwide is Smith (it's Hansen in Scandinavia, Singh in Asia, Garcia in Latin America). For the most part the subscribers are in business, government and the professions. But whatever their names or jobs, these overseas TIME families tend to support our original assumption. Says the TLI history: "Our readers abroad are a remarkably homogeneous group-a kind...
...Scandinavia...