Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After their year here, the scholars will return to Istanbul, Turkey, where they will translate cases and texts and put the Harvard system into effect. The name of the school will be the Institute of Business Administration...
...these is an American: Robert E. Stone, former Dean of the College of Business Administration at Syracuse University, who retired earlier this year to become the new school's co-director. Omer Celal Sarc, Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Istanbul and now a visiting professor at Columbia, will be the other director...
...binge ended at dawn, the diplomats, driving home, saw the corpses of the entire opposition leadership hanging in the square. With Ankara under his heel, Ataturk toured country districts announcing that Islam "is a dead and finished thing." Returning suddenly after eight years' absence to "that cesspool" Istanbul, he summoned notables to a grand ball. Before the band played a note, Ataturk himself stepped, chalk in hand, to a blackboard and for four hours lectured the jaded heirs of the Ottomans on the new, latinized language he had ordained for the republic...
Author Ray Brock (Blood, Oil and Sand), who spent five years as war correspondent in Ankara and Istanbul, has written-or overwritten- the first fulldress biography of this tremendous figure since his death. But the book is too crammed with imagined detail to gratify either history or Hollywood. When Author Brock tries, in a sort of romantic, Irving Stone style, to read the great man's thoughts, the portrait of the remote and terrible Turk turns into semifiction. After an early setback, for instance, Ataturk is made to muse: "Yes, Pasha, and like that monstrous egg in the rhyme...
Veteran Cinemactor Lew (All Quiet on the Western Front) Ayres, 45, whose militant pacifism led him into the noncombatant ranks of World War II's conscientious objectors, passed through Istanbul after a half-year's sampling of Asia's welter of religions. He planned, with the aid of some 75,000 feet of movie film shot during his pilgrimage, to lecture on his findings in the U.S. Of all the religions he had looked over, Ayres liked Mohammedanism best as an ideal faith for world brotherhood. Said he: "You go to pray. You go in turn...