Word: istanbul
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...affluent Europeans and Japanese have also joined in the wanderlust, and the world's byways are fast becoming two-way streets. Virtually everywhere there is need for modern hotels. "Very few new hotels have been built outside North America in the past 40 years," says Conrad Hilton. "In Istanbul ours is the only first-class hotel in a city that for a thousand years was the biggest city in the world. There have been no great hotels in Paris for 40 years, and the same is true of Rome and Athens...
...stately occasion was the 1,000th anniversary of the founding of Great Lavra; there to celebrate was the most impressive gathering of Orthodox Christian leaders in the century. Athenagoras I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, and by virtue of that the spiritual leader of Orthodoxy, came from Istanbul. With him were the bearded Orthodox Patriarchs of Jerusalem, Rumania, Serbia and Bulgaria, the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, and more than 100 prelates representing Orthodox churches of Russia, Czechoslovakia, the U.S., Cyprus, Poland, Finland, and all the Near East. Guests from other faiths included top U.S. Lutheran Franklin Clark...
...runs cars up and down Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Last week Montreal ordered rubber-tired rolling stock based on the Metro design for the 9½-mile subway it plans to build. Transaco, a French investment firm that is marketing the Metro system, recently signed technical contracts with Istanbul and Rio de Janeiro...
...written by a man with brass lungs and a tin ear. Who Lost an American? sounds like a bellowing recitative by a carnival barker who stops at nothing but to laugh at his own jokes. It takes Algren to foreign parts like New York, Paris, Barcelona, Dublin, Istanbul, Crete, and back, of course, to dear old untouchable Chicago. Through it all, Algren (complaining about Americans who complain about the lack of ham and eggs for breakfast) remains about the most militantly ham-and-eggs American traveler since the innocents went abroad in Mark Twain's generation. The book...
...know that during this turbulent month, while students were proclaiming their political ideals not only in Havana and Budapest but also in Istanbul, Caracas, and Tokyo, only three student groups rioted in these United States--two for the removal of football coaches who had failed to produce winning teams and the third for more free student parking space? In fact student riots in the "home of the brave" are now incomparable to the purposeful demonstrations of far-off lands. Harvard University, for example, has yielded two major demonstrations during this past decade (both, of course, in the mild weather...