Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earnest, reserved man tabbed by fellow-NATO commanders as a "good rough officer with a fine sense of humor," Gursel's rise through Turkey's army hierarchy was steady: graduating from Turkey's War College in 1929. he got his first star in 1946, his fourth in 1957. A devout believer in Ataturk's dictum that the army must be beyond politics, he shunned publicity, spent most of his spare time with his wife and son, now a com mission broker in Izmir. As a result, he remained almost unknown to the Turkish public until last...
Throughout the four years of his nation's independence, earnest King Mohammed V has tried to find politicians who will govern Morocco to suit him. The first government he installed collapsed because the main political party, Istiqlal (Independence ), thought the Premier was too pro-French. Since December 1958, Premier Abdallah Ibrahim, 41, has governed at the head of an uneasy coalition whose backbone was the leftist Union Nationale des Forces Popnlaires. He devalued the Moroccan franc, obtained U.S. agreement to the evacuation of air and naval bases by 1963, talked of sweeping economic reforms and nibbled away...
Almost a Rest. He went on to sum up his eight-day visit to the U.S. in earnest, austere praise: "Seeing you, I have seen the truly superior value of a regime of freedom. I leave convinced that it suffices if free people remain firm, wise, and united to lead the world in the path of good sense and peace...
Cutting the Bridges. The cops began shooting in earnest, and some 20 students dropped. One student column surged toward Menderes' Istanbul headquarters. "Menderes must resign!" they shouted. "Death to all dictators!" Along the way they spotted and wrecked the lucklessly named "Menderes Drugstore." Tanks and troops headed them off. By opening drawbridges, the authorities stopped another column from crossing the Golden Horn into the heart of the city. The government proclaimed martial law. All Istanbul's cafés, bars and nightclubs were closed. The university was shut down. The military governor banned any mention of the events...
After nearly 18 months of negotiations at Geneva, the U.S.-British-Soviet delegations seemed close to a nuclear test-ban agreement: an unequivocal pledge to outlaw easily detectable above-ground or underwater explosions and a voluntary moratorium on underground tests-provided the Russians join in an earnest effort to perfect devices for detecting small underground bombs (TIME, April 11). Last week, the nation's top scientific authorities on nuclear detection were called before two subcommittees of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, unanimously made it plain that the black art of concealing small nuclear explosions was fast outstripping...