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TOURISTS Fun on the Bosporus...
...Bosporus (meaning ox or cow ford) is a deep, narrow strait separating Europe and Asia, named in honor of an early swimmer: Io, daughter of the river god Inachos. Io, a looker, dallied with Zeus, who took the precaution-unavailable to other philandering husbands-of changing her into a heifer whenever his wife hove in sight. But Hera (Mrs. Zeus) was a shade too smart for him. One day she archly asked her husband to give her the heifer as a pet. To get out of the fix, poor Io galloped down over the plains of Illyria, across the Balkan...
...command concerned chiefly with fighting a war and negotiating an elusive peace, 57-year-old General Ridgway will move halfway around the globe to a job concerned chiefly with building military strength to prevent a war. From Eisenhower he inherits an allied military command stretching from Iceland to the Bosporus and encompassing one of history's most fateful coalitions of land, sea & air forces...
...lain on the dock for many days. Said one sailor "The man inside was lucky, for usually such crates are opened by the Burgas customs." The crate had been stowed away in the hold of the Palizzi. There it had remained as the little ship steamed through the Bosporus to Istanbul, Smyrna and Genoa where arrangements had been made to fumigate the hold. Said a sailor later: "It's a lucky thing the ship was late-too late for the fumigation. Otherwise the stowaway would have been dead...
...posted on who goes where, who meets whom, who said what. Turkey's jittery police often resort to drastic measures. Occasionally an Istanbul newspaper notes briefly and enigmatically that the body of a Turk or an Eastern European has been fished up from the dark waters of the Bosporus. One local definition of such events: "Death from over-interrogation...