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NONFICTION 1. Kennedy, Sorensen (1) 2. The Making of the President, 1964, White (4) 3. Games People Play, Berne (5) 4. Yes I Can, Davis and Boyar (6) 5. Intern, Doctor X (3) 6. A Gift of Prophecy, Montgomery (2) 7. Waging Peace, Eisenhower 8. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (7) 9. Manchild in the Promised Land, Brown (9) 10. My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy, Lincoln...
...Davis and Boyar...
...Davis and Boyar...
...Judiciary Committee blandly concluded that Hodja Boyar "spoke in a moment of religious ecstasy and should be forgiven," and it seemed foregone that the entire Assembly would next agree. But when the motion reached the floor, it ran into eloquent and unyielding opposition from 72-year-old ex-President Ismet Inonu, Ataturk's successor and now leader of the opposition Republican People's Party. He invoked a strong feeling: though Turkey remains a Moslem country, a whole generation of Turks has been brought up to believe that progress and democracy became possible only after Ataturk abolished...
...Menderes, went out of his way to tell students at Turkey's Air Force Academy last week: "We must never give reaction a chance to return to Turkey." Within 24 hours after President Bayar spoke, Turkey's legislators by an almost unanimous vote refused to pardon Hodja Boyar. For all Turks who believe in separation of church and state, it was a sweet victory, except for the fact that when police went to escort him to prison, Hodja Boyar was nowhere to be found...