Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RAVENNA is the world's chief repository of early Byzantine art, surpassing even Istanbul, the capital of Byzantium. The ancient churches and chapels of the sleepy Italian town (pop. 35,000) are lit by windowpanes of translucent alabaster and by the glitter and blaze of great mosaics such as the triumphant Christ opposite. Ravenna's mosaics, made of innumerable bits of glass, gold and marble chips stuck in plaster, have neither the drama of Gothic church art nor the human warmth of the Renaissance masters. Yet they are equally great, and gayer than either. Their gaiety expresses...
...Israel's Kaiser-Frazer plant), $400,000 worth of antibiotics and drugs, $400,000 worth of pots and pans. Peasants in remote Anatolia now boil their weekly wash in Israeli-made pots fired by Israeli-made stoves, turned out near Israel's Ataturk Forest and carried to Istanbul in vessels of the Turkish Maritime Bank...
HOTELMAN CONRAD HILTON, who now has four hotels abuilding outside the U.S. (in Havana, Mexico City, Acapulco and Istanbul), will soon start work on a fifth in Rome. Hilton has just formed a joint company with his Italian backers, will put up a 400-room luxury hotel, with a shopping center, swimming pools, tennis courts and gardens, in the northwestern part of the city. Estimated cost: about...
...Said Hotelman Conrad Hilton, who operates 27 hotels in three nations and will soon open one in Istanbul, only a few miles from the Iron Curtain: U.S. businessmen should take a "calculated risk" and start trading with Iron Curtain nations. "The circulation of food to the hungry of the captive nations would be more effective than H-bombs in the destruction of Communism...
...Institute will be affiliated with the faculty of Economics at the University of Istanbul. The state operates this school, the Technical University of Istanbul, and the University of Ankara...