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...Russia. Few Foggy Bottom employees could have ridden out that kind of storm. But 'Kohler went on to distinguish himself by ability and hard work in Ankara, returned to Washington in 1958 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs. In 1959 he was the top State Department official accompanying Vice President Nixon to the U.S.S.R., and had charge of arrangements for Premier Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. The next year he was made an Assistant Secretary of State. Last summer, at the height of the crisis over Allied air access to West Berlin, it was Kohler...
Looming over Ankara's busy Ataturk Boulevard like an Anatolian mountain peak is the massive, honey-colored stone structure that houses Turkey's Parliament...
...their Western allies. In the southern town of Mardin near the Syrian border, thousands of fans rioted during a soccer game, then fought off police and soldiers who tried to put down the melee. Nightclubbers at the Istanbul Hilton twisted to an Italian band; pub crawlers in the Ankara Palas Hotel leered at "Velvet Veronique," a stripteaser from Paris billed as "Queen of the Crazy Horse Saloon." Such was normalcy in Turkey, the U.S.'s firm NATO ally, but it scarcely concealed the country's troubles...
Turkish President Cemal Gursel beamed with pride as he roared away from Ankara's new Parliament building in the first auto ever made in Turkey, a four-cylinder, 60-h.p. job, with a chauffeur at the wheel. A scant 100 yards later, General Gursel's smile froze as the auto coughed and died. "We made this car with the Western part of our minds," he berated the chauffeur, "but with the Oriental part we forgot to put gasoline in it." So saying, General Gursel stepped into a fully gassed Detroit job, purred...
...formalities: duly the Grand National Assembly elected Gursel as the Second Republic's new President. The only other announced candidate for the presidency, Ali Fuat Basgil of the pro-Menderes Justice Party, saw the handwriting on the wall, hastily withdrew not only from the race but from Ankara itself. The final vote for Gursel: 433 out of a possible...