Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Warren Pershing (that's Momo and Persh) left yesterday for Paris, Copenhagen, Athens and Istanbul. You realize now is when the really chic people go to Europe. Heaven forbid they should be part of that gauche Summer swarm who think because they have money they have everything, the innocents...
...junket to Moscow un settling. The thaw with Russia has had the effect of setting off a growing clam or by leftist politicians, intellectuals and editors that a few years ago would have landed the most vocal in jail. It was enough to cause some second thoughts. Istanbul's daily Diinya commented: "Improvement of Turkey's relations with the Soviets is fine on one condition-that we always remain an ally of the U.S. and in NATO...
...tourists. The reason is simple enough. Most of the Turkish Riviera has barely been touched by the 20th century. The hotels are few and Spartan, the food is good but unfamiliar, the night life is nil, and travel is tortuous. Overland, the only means of reaching the coast from Istanbul is a two-day trip over winding, pot-holed roads. But none of these problems plague most visitors to the Turkish Riviera-they come by sea. Crowded out of Monte Carlo and tired of touring the Greek islands, members of the international yachting set have begun to drop their anchors...
...this has nicely enriched life for Istanbul-born, Brooklyn-reared Bernie Cornfeld, a mild-mannered bachelor of 37 who does not look as if he would ever talk back to his boss. He drives a Lancia Flaminia convertible, sails a 42-ft. Corsair, owns a ski lodge and a castle in France and lives in a lavish villa in suburban Geneva with two Great Danes and a Chinese houseman. He decorates his penthouse office with red silk Empire furnishings and swarms of attractive, multilingual secretaries, trains and entertains his worldwide force of 2,000 salesmen with everything from art lectures...
...will open to the public the Met's new Far Eastern and Islamic galleries (color pages, following), with great halls of giant buddhas that seem to ring with temple gongs, and a collection of Islamic art without parallel in any of the world's museums outside of Istanbul's Topkapi...