Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nest Eggs & Mattresses. For Cornfeld, that kind of sentiment has been conspicuously rare in recent months; he has made money far faster than friends. An Istanbul-born, Brooklyn-reared onetime social worker, he hit on the idea of selling mutual-fund shares to overseas G.I.s in the 1950s, soon started selling door to door to Europeans. Another successful item that he started peddling in 1962 was the Fund of Funds, consisting of shares of other mutual funds. Paying few taxes, Cornfeld's Panama-chartered I.O.S. employs 10,000 salesmen in over 100 countries, has expanded into a $250 million...
...after announcing that he would make a visit to Turkey, "the journey will be extremely rapid." Rapid it was: less than 38 hours. It was also, in many ways, much less spectacular than his earlier journeys to India, the Holy Land, the U.S. and Portugal's Fatima. In Istanbul last week, the Pope had a warm and fraternal encounter with Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople-but there was none of the drama of their first meeting three years ago on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives. Though cordially received by predominantly Moslem Turkey, the Pope drew crowds modest...
Axios! Axios! The meeting between Pope and Patriarch took place at the Orthodox Cathedral of St. George, a ramshackle Byzantine-style church down by Istanbul's lumberyards. After joint prayers, the two exchanged gifts-a gold-embroidered stole for Paul, an ikon for the Patriarch-while the congregation, following the Orthodox tradition, shouted "Axios! Axios!" (worthy, worthy...
Continental Breakfast. Escorted by tough riot police of Beirut's red-bereted "Squad 16," the Americans boarded Pan American and Middle East Airlines charter jets, soon were winging for Rome, Athens, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Ankara, and Nicosia on Cyprus. Others made it aboard the American Export Isbrandtsen freighter Exilona for a leisurely, sun-drenched cruise to the Cypriot port of Famagusta...
...military campaign: "One begins with strategy, continues with tactics, ends with responses to local situations." And, he might have added, measures his success-and ultimately that of his museum-by the trophies brought back from the battlefields of back rooms, auction houses and dealer-wheelings from Ipswich to Istanbul...