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...Diem's sister-in-law and official hostess. "Dancing with death is sufficient." Besides, said she, "Asians are not used to promiscuity be tween men and women. If the Americans want to dance, they should go elsewhere." And what of Saigon's 1,200 newly unem- ployed taxi dancers? Said the mandarin Mme. Nhu coldly: "The question is not finding work for them, but starving them into more useful jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 22, 1962 | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

Died. Gottlieb Duttweiler, 73. Swiss merchant titan who built the $250 million-a-year Migros cooperative food chain (also taxi fleets, sewing machines, Mi-grol gas and oil) by showing the Swiss how to fight price wars, then gave his super-marketing venture to his customers as their gain; of a heart attack; in Zurich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 15, 1962 | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

Nightclubbing was made easy by 4,000 waitresses, hostesses and taxi dancers (previously outlawed), who had just finished a cram course in English and etiquette (sample instruction: don't order drinks without the customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: New Life | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

Last week, looking wan and carrying a small bundle of personal belongings, Chang, 39. was freed. Humbly he told reporters: "I am sorry for causing all this trouble." With his wife, he took a taxi to a cousin's home (his own luxurious villa had long been rented), then knelt in prayer with his family and a Korean Presbyterian minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Well-Timed Clemency | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

...parts and mechanics to install them. One of Castro's captive newspapers counted 280 bus breakdowns on Havana's streets in one day alone recently. "What am I supposed to do when this thing finally goes-join the militia?" said the disgruntled driver of a 1953 Cadillac taxi. Cubans are leary of the Coca-Cola they drink-it has been known to contain cockroach eggs; in bars they pointedly order Coke "sin bacilli" (without germs). "My father would be very sad to see this," said the son of the late president of Coca-Cola in Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Moscow's Man in Havana | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

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