Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Eden, leaned out by his illness, but feeling fit (see NEWS IN PICTURES), flew in from his U.S. convalescence to join the Prime Minister at Chequers. For two weeks they would talk it over, before setting out for the Mediterranean. Guessed one Churchill associate: "Winnie might hand over around the time of the annual Tory conference in October. I wouldn't lay you 2 to 1 against...
What would a real rapprochement mean? First of all, it could be the first step toward realizing an old Arab dream: unification of all the Arab lands on the "fertile crescent" between Iran and the Mediterranean. More immediate, perhaps, was a threat to British influence in the Middle East. Iraq relies on Britain for oil markets; Jordan relies on Britain for just about everything. If oil-wealthy Iraq lent money to impoverished Jordan, and overcrowded Jordan resettled Palestine refugees in Iraq, where they would speed Iraq's own development, the two nations might find themselves less dependent...
...have been the subject of ceaseless Soviet agitation ever since. The Montreux Convention is an international agreement (signed by Turkey, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria. Greece, Japan, Rumania and Yugoslavia) which regulates the Dardanelles and the Bosporus, the straits linking the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. Under this agreement. Turkey may fortify the straits and regulate the passage of warships, but must allow all merchant ships to pass. In World War II, the Soviet Union charged that neutral Turkey had permitted German war vessels to pass through the straits...
...also wore out his traveling companions by giving U.S. bases the same tireless and detailed inspection he had once given his G.M. plants. Aboard the U.S.S. Midway in the Mediterranean, he led his party up & down an endless series of ladders, finally stopped to stick his head into the ship's machine shop. In an industrial machine shop, the filings always fly when the boss comes through, but on the Midway, well-disciplined sailors were standing at attention by idle machines carefully shined up for inspection. Boomed Engine Charlie: "Where are the chips...
Bouncing Grandpa. Who is Zorba? He is Everyman with a Greek accent. He is Sinbad crossed with Sancho Panza. He is the Shavian Life Force poured into a long, lean, fierce-mustached Greek whose 65 years in the Mediterranean sun have neither dimmed his hawk eyes nor dulled his pagan laughter. From the moment when he pounces on the nameless narrator of the story with an abrupt offer-"Taking me with you? ... I can make soups you've never heard or thought of"-Zorba makes the heroes of most modern fiction seem like dyspeptic ghosts...