Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turkey's two mightiest political figures last week left their own shores to line up friends abroad. President Celal Bayar turned up in Karachi to cement a military alliance with Pakistan. Premier Adnan Menderes descended by air on Baghdad to sign a Turkish-Iraqi treaty of mutual defense against Communism...
While Tony Trabert was edging up on professional tennis, a onetime sure shot backed away, perhaps for good. Last season, when a pro contract was hers for the asking, Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly had gone horseback riding, tangled with a cement mixer and dropped out of amateur competition with a broken leg. Now, said Little Mo, her leg had mended but her spirit had not. A comeback was not worth the effort. Standing hand-in-hand with her fiancé, San Diego State College Sophomore Norman A. Brinker, she announced: "I just don't enjoy tennis any more...
Caracas (pop. 87,000), the balmy capital (average temperature 70°). is the national show window-a bursting city overhauling itself so fast that the visitor who returns only once a year can easily get lost. Under clouds of dust, half pulverized rubble and half cement, new super-boulevards crash through old slums, and lavender-painted buses soon roll along them...
...some time they had been writing to their son and to his captors about visiting him. Farmer Fischer had written that he might bring along some of his registered Hampshire hogs. His son had reported the reaction of a guard to that proposition: a good idea; the pork might cement relations...
...arrives aboard a huge ocean liner built by Vickers' shipbuilding division, steams into a harbor past Vickers fishing vessels and ties up at a pier near a Vickers drydock. Boarding a Vickers-made bus (now running in cities from Cairo to Montevideo), the sightseer travels past rows of cement kilns made by Vickers, past Vickers oil-storage tanks, Vickers rubber plants, steel mills, printing plants, bottling plants, all equipped with Vickers machinery. He tours the suburbs on a Vickers electrified train. Going home again, he boards a Vickers airliner on an airfield carved out by Vickers tractors and earth...