Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Money-Sucking Sands. On his way to India, Graham not only picked up two more $100 checks from pilots in midair, but planted some free-enterprise seeds along the way. In Athens he left $10,000 with a committee of bankers for local loans, another $6,200 in Istanbul and $10,000 in Beirut. Already approved are loans to a Greek furniture company, a Turkish spring-clip factory, a Lebanese cement contracting business. He landed in India with $220,000 left in hand and a lot more enterprise in mind...
Lifting the Veil Sir: I thoroughly enjoyed your Nov. 11 article on the emancipation of Moslem women, especially since I was an instructor at Robert College in Istanbul at the time (about the beginning of Ataturk's idea to "westernize" his country) when the Turkish men were forced to throw away their fezzes and the young Turkish girls eagerly discarded their veils. The late Dr. Caleb Gates, president of the college and a very religious man, was a good friend of a wealthy pasha who had four wives. He asked the pasha why it was necessary to have four...
...nation's first Paramount Ruler because of his marital didoes (TIME. Aug. 12), and across the Strait of Malacca, when Indonesia's President Sukarno took a third wife, he touched off vehement, widely publicized feminist demonstrations. In the more cosmopolitan Moslem cities such as Rabat, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul and Karachi, unveiled women have long since ceased to be a novelty. In Turkey the veil was lifted some 30 years ago under the late great Dictator Kemal Ataturk, and in Iran under the late Reza Shah...
...barrelhead, that the only thing Turkey has plenty of is yok (nothing). They complained that Menderes had suppressed freedom of the press, packed the courts to rubber-stamp his decisions, and altered the election code to keep opposition parties from forming coalition slates. Yet the windup rallies in Istanbul were festive rather than bitter, and wonderfully reminiscent of U.S. campaign rallies except that vendors hawked raisin cakes instead of hot dogs, and the music was supplied by singsong flutes instead of brass bands...
Republican party headquarters in Ankara claimed a lead in nine provinces, including populous Ankara, Istanbul and Adana. But Menderes and his Democrats said the Premier's party was well in front...