Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least likely to threaten Bond's supremacy is That Man in Istanbul, with Horst Bucholz battling a one-armed villain atop a minaret and performing other improbable feats to rescue a kidnaped scientist. A masquerade in a Turkish bath, long visits with FBI Sexpot Sylva Koscina and a tour of the city cannot save Istanbul. Delivering insouciant asides to the audience brings out the unseasoned ham in Horst...
...money and attracted a more widely popular following than any other classical instrumentalist in history. At a time when artists 25 years his junior are gearing down for retirement, he is shifting into overdrive. This season he will perform virtually every third day in concert halls from Ithaca to Istanbul. The real wonder is not that he is still going so strong, but that he is playing better than ever...
...great dome, leave it sitting on a puffed-out base like a "wedding cake on a big buffet table." Von Eckardt noted that damaged walls have been repaired -without extension-in far older monuments such as London's St. Paul's Cathedral and the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Despite such criticism, Congress appears taken with Stewart's idea, shortly before adjournment voted him $330,000 for detailed plans and a scale model of the "new" Capitol...
...past year, the overall cost-of-living index has risen a jarring 35% in Buenos Aires, 10% in Rome, 6% in Stockholm, 5% in Lisbon and Istanbul. Stockholm now leads all other cities in the cost of food, followed by Tokyo, Oslo, Helsinki, Paris and Rome; New York ranks all the way down to seventh on the list. Hotel rates are highest in Paris and Mexico City ($26 a day for a single), but a stay at the best hotels in Johannesburg and Lisbon costs only $7 a night...
...express trains bear the name Orient, but only one (the Direct-Orient) makes the 1,889-mile journey to Istanbul that links Paris and the West with the gateway to the East. Wagons-Lits still operates sleeping cars on this train, which goes along a southerly route that bypasses Bucharest...