Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Something of a tradition: site of the first American campus outside the U.S. is Istanbul's Robert College (1863). Americans also helped found Ankara's Middle East Technical University...
...Olde. Water- in canals, lagoons, fountains - is "an excellent prop"; and arcades such as those flank ing Pisa's Borgo Stretto and Bern's Spitalgasse or covering Istanbul's Grand Bazaar provide not only protection from both sun and rain but an interesting play of light and shadow...
...trip, which grew out of an invitation from an Iranian "to come to Teheran and visit my home," is expected to last three months. The tentative route will include Paris, Rome, Istanbul, Teheran, Lahore, New Delhi, the palace of the Mir of Gilgit and Amritsan Threturn route will possibly include Afghanistan and the Soviet Union...
...many businessmen fear that the law is a prelude to outright confiscation, have been hiding their hoarded cash instead of investing it in badly needed production facilities. Some businessmen have no cash to hide. Moaned one Istanbul factory owner who was whiplashed by the alternating inflationary and deflationary policies of the Menderes regime: "In the U.S., you can build up a business and live on it for three generations. Here, in one generation I've run through three businesses." The government has kept the currency stabilized, is gamely trying to slash imports and boost exports to reduce the chronic...
Shouts & Whispers. Under the constitution, President Gursel has little real power, but he continues to exert pressure on the politicians. Regularly, he climbs into the presidential Cadillac, speeds from his seaside villa near Istanbul to buttonhole and prod key politicians and military commanders. Gursel today is a spry 67, has almost fully recovered from a partial paralysis he suffered 17 months ago; he has also broken the chain-smoking habit and is proud of it. "During those first days," he recalls, "I felt that someone had me by the throat and voices were whispering in my ear 'Smoke, smoke...