Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before leaving on a reporting trip to Indo-China, Writer Graham Greene accepted the invitation of Sir Alexander Korda for a cruise on the Korda yacht Elsewhere around the Greek islands, through the Dardanelles to Istanbul. Among the other glittering guests: Sir Laurence and Lady Olivier, Ballerina Margot Fonteyn...
...Istanbul, blonde ex-Cinemactress Virginia (The Invisible Woman) Bruce and her wealthy Turkish husband Ali Ipar announced that they were very much in love after five years of marriage-and that they were going to get a divorce. Reason: Turkish law forbids commissioning an officer with a foreign wife. Ali, due for a term of military service, wants a commission. They plan to remarry when the law is changed or Ali's tour of duty ends...
Carloads of funeral wreaths preceded the flag-draped coffin through Istanbul's streets to the Monument of Eternal Liberty. Turks by the thousands marched in the long cortege that followed, and lined the streets with heads bowed in reverence. All of Turkey paused for a moment last week as the long-dead bones of Midhat Pasha were brought home from exile for proper burial in his native land. Said a spectator: "This is a day not for sorrowing, but for rejoicing...
...Emil Horyna, Czechoslovak military attache in Istanbul, who asked the Turkish government for asylum...
...maneuvers near Istanbul, Yamut asked American advisers to show his officers what jeeps, trucks and tanks could do in the rough terrain. He followed the lead jeep as it bounced and slushed through brush, forests and mud hills. Not satisfied to allow his general officers to stand around observing, he herded them into other jeeps or tanks and sent them careering in the dust and mud until they were so dirty the red stripes on their uniform trousers were hardly visible. Next day he sent the shocked generals slithering through sandy terrain in the same jeeps. A few vehicles turned...