Word: bosporus
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...suburb of Constantinople. Gone was the conquering fervor that created a tri-continental empire the size of the U.S., encompassing what are now 20 modern nations stretching from the Dniester to the Nile, from the Adriatic to the Persian Gulf. In 1919, British warships still rode in the Bosporus and British troops held Constantinople; Italy, France and Greece were secretly dividing up the best of the remainder. The greatest empire between Augustus and Victoria had shrunk to a small, lifeless inland state in the barren interiors of Asia Minor; its Sultan was reduced to the status of a borough president...
Florence Chadwick yesterday swam the current-strong Bosporus from Europe to Asia and back. Tomorrow she will attempt to conquer the Dardanelles and complete an unprecedented grand tour of four of Europe's great waterways in one year...
...Tarifa, Spain, Channel Swimmer Florence Chadwick plunged into the Straits of Gibraltar, swam the eight miles to Africa in the record time of 5 hrs. 6 min. Her next target: the Bosporus...
...nation is more torn between the culture of East and West than modern Turkey. Most of its artists take their stand on the western shore of the Bosporus, doing second-rate imitations of European art. Others occupy the eastern bank, and turn out miniature paintings, inlays and rugs of the sort traditionally associated with Persia. One of Turkey's best contemporary painters is an artist named Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu, who has one foot firmly planted on either side of the Bosporus, paints pictures that could never have been done farther east of Paris or west of Bagdad...
WEST Germany's Krupp-controlled Stahlbau (steel construction company) Rheinhausen is negotiating with the Turkish government to build a $65 million, ¾-mile-long bridge across the Bosporus at Istanbul. Next to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, it would be the world's longest span...