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...island. The Turkish press blossomed with headlines when Kosygin promised the visiting Turks that the Kremlin would study ways to improve the living conditions of the hapless Turkish Cypriots. Though a new dollop of Soviet aid may come out of the trip, many Turks found Urguplii's 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...
...autographed photographs from U.S. fans. Then it was off to Reims for a business appointment, back to England for a day of test driving at Silverstone, and back to Reims again-this time to practice for a July 4 Formula II race. Ahead on the schedule: a Ford junket to Switzerland, a race in Britain, a trip to Rouen, a movie filming in Scotland, and the Dutch Grand Prix. This frantic life has its little compensations. Fortune, for one: his income from racing this year will top $230,000, and Edington Mains is busily in the black too, producing barley...
...into complacency by the Green's won-lost record either. Dartmouth lost its last 12 games last year, opened its season with a 73-65 win over Vermont, and now has lost seven straight. But look at their schedule: the Indians played Boston College in December, and on a junket through the Midwest over the holidays lost to Ohio State, Dayton, and Kentucky. That sort of a schedule would scare Princeton...
...emerging forces." When it came to promises of a more concrete kind, Mikoyan was a little vague. Apart from massive arms aid, at least $300 million in Soviet development aid credits has vanished without trace in Indonesia's bottomless pit of corruption, inefficiency and poverty. On his current junket, the crafty Armenian could not help seeing that since his last visit to Sukarno-land two years ago, the swarms of scrawny, barefoot children had grown thinner and hungrier and the tens of thousands of beggars blocking the streets and sidewalks more pitiful and insistent in this the 19th year...
Charles de Gaulle has toured his country 21 times since 1959, and as a result Frenchmen everywhere have grown accustomed to the towering figure mingling with crowds. But last week, as he set off on his latest trip, a junket through Picardy, there was an unusual air of curiosity: at 73, and recently out of the hospital after a prostate operation, how would De Gaulle stand up to four days of speeches and handshaking...