Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high school in 1918, he saw Russia inflamed by revolution, and promptly joined the White Army. "My political beliefs made it imperative," he says. But the White Army was almost wiped out in the two years of bitter fighting that followed. In 1920, those who were left sailed for Istanbul and exile. "It was a miniature Dunkirk...
...printing curtains and handkerchiefs. "The possibilities are limitless," he murmurs, absently dabbling a design in his coffee saucer. Business people are beginning to see the possibilities in Eyuboglu himself; negotiations are under way for a show of his art in Philadelphia, and the new Hilton Hotel being built in Istanbul will be decorated with Eyuboglu curtains...
...outside their country in the first six months of 1953, many of them in the humpbacked little Volkswagen that are driving British cars off Central Europe's roads. Millions more camped by picture-postcard rivers or along the Baltic shores. Germans pointed Leicas at Rome's Colosseum, Istanbul's bazaars, Granada's Alhambra. Their wives thumbed the lingerie in the Faubourg St. Honoré, where Parisian shopkeepers endured the hated language for the sake of the Deutsche mark. Richer folk drove to Greece by way of Yugoslavia, and one of them reminded his host that...
WEST Germany's Krupp-controlled Stahlbau (steel construction company) Rheinhausen is negotiating with the Turkish government to build a $65 million, ¾-mile-long bridge across the Bosporus at Istanbul. Next to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, it would be the world's longest span...
BECAUSE of a widening trade gap with the rest of the world, Turks fear the lira may be devalued. The government had hoped the gap would be filled by bigger wheat exports, but price-supported Turkish wheat is too expensive for the world market. In Istanbul's black market, the lira, officially pegged at 2.82 to the dollar, was down to 5.50 last week...