Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Market [Sept. 27]: TIME is unfair to Goodyear, which has the heftiest U.S. tire factory here. As representatives of Goodyear and Chrysler for nearly half a century, we are proud to report that both factories are going great guns in the Turkish industrial revolution. R. YALMAN Chairman Tatko Co. Istanbul...
...Greece to discuss trade matters with local officials. While the guests slept that night, the Christina, loaded with fresh peaches, black figs and pomegranates, and decorated from stem to stern with red roses and gladioli, weighed anchor and set sail through the Aegean for a visit to Istanbul. On hand to care for the party of twelve was a crew of 60 that included a dance band and two coiffeurs from Athens...
...spite of his retiring ways, Ramsey has already made considerable impact on the English Church. Like his predecessor, now Lord Fisher of Lambeth, he is a convinced ecumenicist, and serves as one of six co-presidents of the World Council of Churches. Last year he visited Moscow and Istanbul for theological discussions with Orthodox prelates on the prickly question of intercommunion. A close personal friend of Liverpool's Roman Catholic Archbishop John Heenan, who is the odds-on favorite to become the next English cardinal, Ramsey last year became the first Archbishop of Canterbury to lecture at Belgium...
...sited on some of the finest hotel locations in the world-looking up at the Parthenon in Athens, near the Diet Building in Tokyo, overlooking the Vatican in Rome and the Queen's private garden in London, on the Nile in Cairo and above the Bosporus in Istanbul, at the foot of the Elburz Mountains in Teheran. All of the hotels glisten and glitter, with an architecture that ranges from international slab to a crosshatched radio-cabinet style. They lean heavily on the anonymity of modernism, and display a spartan opulence designed as much to save the hotel money...
...take from tourism increased $12 million a year after Hilton moved in; Turkey gained $2.5 million in foreign exchange. A Hilton usually forces other hotels in the area to improve their standards (their celebrated old-fashioned personal service sometimes gets a little inattentive). In such cities as Istanbul, Cairo and Amsterdam, the Hilton has become a social center for politicians, businessmen and local society. "Now a country's reputation is made with Cadillacs, an airline and a Hilton hotel," says one Hilton executive. "That's the credential to get into the United Nations...