Word: answers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsmen and breaking photographers' cameras. On his way to the, railroad station, Inonu found the street blocked by a solid wall of opposition Democratic toughs. He insisted on walking through them, and as he approached, Turkey's old hero shouted: "Aren't you ashamed?" The answer was a barrage of stones. Struck on the head, Inonu was knocked down but, struggling bloodily to his feet, grimly continued his march through the hostile crowd to the station. The incident was watched passively by 250 gendarmes. Cemal Goktan, Turkey's , director general of police, was also on hand...
...shouldered Fred Turner Jr., 62, has made millions out of oil wells, but his true love is a good thoroughbred. Says he: "I like to travel, but any place in the world becomes boring for me after a few days unless I have a purpose, and thoroughbreds are the answer." Last week, at Louisville's Churchill Downs, Turner's purpose paid off as his English-bred colt, Tomy Lee, won the Kentucky Derby and its $119,650 purse...
...temper, tongue-lashed his laggards. Beginning immediately, he told them, they were to act like ladies, gentlemen-and scholars. They sat amazed as he gave his startling ultimatum: girls were to be addressed as Miss, boys were to be referred to by their surnames. He himself, he announced, would answer only to Sir or Mr. Braithwaite. When one boy objected that he knew the girls too well for formality, Braithwaite scored a tactical victory. "Is there any young lady present whom you consider unworthy of your courtesies?" he asked. The girls glared at the rebel in outrage; he backed down...
...head fame is a peculiarly wolfish ditty called Kookie, Kookie (Warner Bros.) in which Byrnes sings scarcely a note. His contribution is a series of jive lingo replies to a marshmallow-voiced girl who implores him over and over again: "Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb!" Sample answer...
...accounts of these very different men's wartime experiences make for vastly different books. Yet both in a sense try to answer the combat soldier's battlefield question: "What am I doing here...