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...study ways to improve the living conditions of the hapless Turkish Cypriots. Though a new dollop of Soviet aid may come out of the trip, many Turks found Urguplii's junket to Moscow un settling. The thaw with Russia has had the effect of setting off a growing clam or by leftist politicians, intellectuals and editors that a few years ago would have landed the most vocal in jail. It was enough to cause some second thoughts. Istanbul's daily Diinya commented: "Improvement of Turkey's relations with the Soviets is fine on one condition-that...
...Treadways have one thing in common: special touches for the guests. A Treadway Inn never has more than 200 rooms, and guests are pampered with decorator interiors, extra pillows, and lemon soap. Guests can also expect good New England cooking in the dining room (lobster pie, clam chowder, homemade bread, Indian pudding) and special celebrations on Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Mardi Gras, and the twelve days of Christmas, when several Treadways feature a boar's head, suckling pig and medieval carolers. Yet Treadway, where it counts, is very much up-to-date...
Keppel, who has clearly a free hand in running his office under self-effacing Secretary Anthony Celebrezze, is tactfully noncommittal about such legislation. "I came to Washington to work for Celebrezze and I'm happy as a clam," he says...
...right, pull your claws in, Cat.' And when the rest of the gang was in the house. Bird would sneak in the back door and talk to my mother. She was a chatterbox. But she was timid. When she'd get in a crowd, she'd clam...
...Ostrea edulis. To the locals it is known simply as the plate (the flat one), to distinguish it from the bumpy Portuguese oyster, which is sometimes foisted off on innocent diners as a true edulis, and which ostreophiles regard as little better than a mussel or even a clam...