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Turkey's 59-year-old Premier Adnan Menderes was flying into London from Istanbul with a planeload of Turkish officials, Members of Parliament and newsmen for final talks on a Cyprus settlement. His secretary had pulled him through a hole in the wreckage. Margaret Bailey, a former nurse, drove them through the woods to her 14th century farm cottage, wrapped them in hot blankets, served them tea and some of her precious 1868 brandy...
Last month in Istanbul, Athenagoras backed James for election to the New York see against stiff opposition. The battle arena: Greek Orthodoxy's twelve-seat Holy Synod, composed of 16 metropolitans (on a revolving basis), whose actual or titular sees are in Turkey. To elect James, Athenagoras needed a minimum of six votes plus his own tiebreaker, but could muster only five. The majority considered strongly anti-Communist Archbishop James too "progressive." When four anti-James metropolitans took their case outside the synod, leaking word to Turkish newspapers that James was "an enemy of the Turkish people," Athenagoras promptly...
Divinity School graduate James Coucouzes S.T.M. '45, was elected Archbishop of the Americas by the Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church, Saturday, in Istanbul...
Unlike Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy has no single head but what has been described as "an oligarchy of patriarchs." There are five major patriarchates: Constantinople (Istanbul), Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem and Moscow, plus lesser patriarchs for the Serbs, Rumanians and Georgians. Most prestigious is the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, called "first among equals," whose present incumbent is Archbishop Athenagoras I, longtime friend of Pope John...
...vast Zellidja lead and zinc mines in Morocco at one time represented 10% of the entire foreign revenue of France. They were married in 1941. A tall, tough, humorous man, Paul Walter had both ideas and imagination. He gave away millions of francs, endowed hospitals from Paris to Istanbul, established the Zellidja Foundation, which offered tiny cash grants to young students on their pledge to travel widely and live by their wits (TIME, Dec. 1). He also had -with apparent prevision -strong feelings about the corruptibility of wealth, and therefore settled 30 billion francs on each of three children...