Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coal, Steel, Sugar. In his revulsion at the special power and privileges enjoyed by foreigners under the Ottomans, Ataturk had discriminated against foreign capital and expelled from the country hundreds of thousands of the Greeks who (along with Jews and Armenians) had always handled Turkey's business. Traditionally, the Turkish ruling class were landlords and slaveowners; they had no experience in modern management, little capital outside their land...
...within two weeks of its opening because no. sugar beets were grown in the area. Even more bitterly, they accused him of using development funds as a bottomless pork barrel with which to woo the peasant vote-a charge at least partly borne out last year when Menderes swept along Turkey's Black Sea coast in a pre-election tour passing out promises of sugar mills, cement factories and port improvements with all the abandon of a new father distributing cigars...
...police headquarters, blue-helmeted cops jumped aboard open riot trucks and headed for the city's downtown squares. Armed with rifles, bayonets, pistols, machetes and tear gas, they blocked off the narrow cobblestoned streets leading to the squares to keep rioters from gathering. A shiny red truck whipped along one side of Plaza Bolivar spraying demonstrators with high-pressure streams of water colored with red dye, then circled the plaza of El Silencio, center of earlier riots. When the truck left there was silence, except for the clink of soldiers' bayonets. Then the noise of gunfire rattled across...
...little after 2 a.m. an eleven-car caravan raced from Miraflores Palace along a four-lane highway towards Caracas' tiny, little-used Carlota Airport. In a silence broken only by far-off scattered shots, Carlota's runway lights blinked on. At 2:53 the four engines of a DC-4 sputtered into action; 15 minutes later the plane lifted west over the downtown section of the city. In a few minutes the plane's winking red light disappeared behind the mountains edging the city, and Pérez Jiménez was gone, kited off after five...
...Along with plans to exchange its elegant but drafty old home for a modern theater at Manhattan's projected Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Opera is busy with another building program. Aside from the great names on its roster-Maria Callas. Victoria de los Angeles, Richard Tucker, Mario Del Monaco, Leonard Warren, Cesare Siepi-it is adding to its solid second rank by bringing in exciting newcomers who, more than the established stars, are making this a memorable season. Some of the best of the new voices...