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According to the story McCuistion later told his superiors, an English-speaking Turk, later identified as an agent of the Turkish Finance Ministry, charged McCuistion with black-market purchases of Turkish lire. When McCuistion denied the charge, five Turks began to work him over. For 18 hours he went without water, food or sleep while his captors questioned and "beat me unmercifully. They rabbit-punched me from behind and kicked me. I was afraid they would kill...
According to the Turkish police, the four sergeants among them had bought about $15,000 worth of lire at black-market rates, i.e., at 11 or 12 to the dollar instead of at the official 9 to the dollar. For this, Izmir's public prosecutor last week demanded up to 25 years for McCuistion and lesser prison sentences for the other three...
...chronological fact that sent Romans scurrying to place their lire on numbers three and 52 in the daily lottery; both paid...
...German invasion of Europe was at flood tide last week. Only this time, instead of carrying guns, the Germans clutched fistfuls of lire, francs, guilders, dinars, schillings. Some 5,000,000 of them are pouring south and west in an eager tourist flight from the greyer skies and industrial soot of their prosperous native land. "It is the fresh air and sunshine that we like best," gushed buxom, blonde Use Schultz on the beach at Ostia. "It is so wonderful to feel the sun scorching until it hurts." In Italy the Germans outnumber American tourists, though they do not outspend...
...Tirra-Lire-Lire. In Acqui, Italy, 1½-year-old Maurizio Pesce was fined 400 lire for excessive tootling of his father's auto horn...