Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with. Last November he invoked the well-worn dictator's device of taking over control of all newsprint. Newspapers were forbidden to import any newsprint of their own, thus leaving them at the mercy of the government, which runs Turkey's paper mills. The independent Cumhuriyet of Istanbul is kept down to two or three days' supply of newsprint, thus keeping the editor under a dangling Damocles' sword. The opposition Ulus has been cut to one-fifth its normal supply, forcing a reduction in its circulation from 100,000 to 20,000. "They...
...Frank Lloyd Wright he was building a hotel without corridors, without windows and without doors, the shrewd old man opined: "Ed, sounds like you've got something there." Wright was right. El Panama (now the El Panama Hilton) has set a style for resort hotels from Hawaii to Istanbul...
Your cover picture of Menderes does not show the blood of thousands of Greek Orthodox children and women (Istanbul massacre, Sept. 6, 1955). John Foster Dulles' flirtation with the corrupt country of Turkey is one of the greatest shames of today...
...Istanbul...
...midterm recess, and the government had ordered the campus ringed by 300 police and cavalry as a "security measure." But some 600 students defiantly rallied to give departing Professor Kubali an ovation, carried him on their shoulders to his car despite his urging that they disperse. In Istanbul on a Ford Foundation project, Columbia University Law Professor Emeritus Elliott Cheatham urged the U.S. ambassador to intervene on Kubali's behalf because "I am sure Professor Kubali's attendance at the Conference on the Rule of Law at the University of Chicago last year strengthened his decision to speak...