Word: balkanize
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...decreasing, " said Tur key's Premier Adnan Menderes in Bel grade last week, "is more of a feeling than a conception based on hard fact." On a four-day state visit to Yugoslavia, the Turk was doing his best to persuade the third partner in the three-ply Balkan pact (Turkey-Greece-Yugoslavia) to forget its dreams of peaceful coexistence with Rus sia and to cast its lot with the Western nations in NATO, as Greece and Turkey have done. In a succession of state banquets, his hosts listened respectfully, protested their deep friendship, but acted...
Mustached Julius Holmes, 55, has had a career as varied as the intricate pattern of a Persian rug. A Kansan* who entered the Foreign Service in 1925, he served at four Mediterranean and Balkan posts before returning to Washington as assistant chief of protocol. In 1937 Protocol Expert Holmes resigned to become vice president of the New York World's Fair and, in effect, Grover Whalen's secretary of state...
Meanwhile, in Sever 17, three of the History Department's best, Professor Langer and Associate Professors Wolff and Frye, tackle the Middle East since the end of the 13th century. Ottoman Empire sheiks and Balkan intrigues are subject matters for this, History...
...this fall. West Germany will get back its sovereignty and be "associated" with NATO. And if Paris says no? The British at least are for a series of ad hoc bilateral pacts between the U.S., Britain and Germany, so that the Germans can be tied to NATO through a Balkan pact-type arrangement, similar to that which links Yugoslavia to NATO partners Greece and Turkey...
With his cosmetics line off to a booming start, Factor hurried back to his first love: wigmaking. He imported fine-textured hair from Italian, German and Balkan peasant women, who grew it specially for sale. Soon he cornered Hollywood's costume wig market with super-de luxe models priced...