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...years U.S. advisers had been scolding the Turkish government for trying to expand too far too fast and warning the Turks that they were scaring investors away. Yet last week, as he flew off to a Baghdad Pact meeting in Karachi, tough Premier Adnan Menderes had the look of a man well satisfied with things. As his plane winged eastward, he could look pleasantly down on Anatolia, usually brown, now lushly green. Six weeks of rain had changed the vital wheat crop prospects from poor to good...
...Karachi, Pakistan
Deck Him with Shoes! At week's end the trouble crossed into Pakistan. In Karachi, 15,000 students and hired stooges of Moslem League politicos recently fallen from power marched through the streets. "War with India," they shouted, and "Down with Nehru's Tyranny!" Students bore Nehru's picture through the city, garlanded with old shoes, an extreme sign of disrespect to Hindus. By noon the mob had forced shops to close. broken the windows of the Indian bank, stoned school buses and stopped all traffic in Bunder Road, Karachi's main street. The East Pakistan...
Calling a mass meeting in New Delhi, Nehru laughed off "the special honor I've been paid in Karachi," but warned gravely against rumors of "communal troubles" and "spy stories" spreading through the bazaars. "Our ears are too sensitive," he said, and announced that the government would speedily put through "legislation that will curb those opportunists who are fanning communal passions...
...Jivester. To a chance acquaintance, dapper, potbellied Hussein Suhrawardy would seem an unlikely choice for so forbidding a job. A widower he shuns liquor and tobacco but likes feminine companionship, nightclubs and rumbaing till dawn. He has a concrete dance floor on the roof of his Karachi house, and his record collection includes 1,200 U.S. dance records. When he isn't on the dance floor, Suhrawardy spends most of his time at home in a small bedroom furnished with twin beds. On one he sleeps; on the other, which is piled high with files, telephone books, old magazines...