This summer several members of the staff in charge of TIME'S overseas editions made swings through most of the countries of Latin America. Recently I talked to Jack Stephens and Jim Alberse, two members of TIME-LIFE International's circulation department who were just back from such a tour. The primary purpose of their trip was to help prepare for a new edition of LIFE in Spanish, but along the way they picked up some interesting facts about TIME in Latin America. .
TIME, they discovered, is often mealtime fare. In Guayaquil, Ecuador, Stephens walked into a hotel dining room for lunch and found...