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...made only with Russian troops. By many standards Turkey is a backward country, but the Turks these days have a very simple and clear foreign policy: they are determined to fight on every goat path in the Taurus Mountains and to make the Russians pay & pay for every melon patch in Adana and every back alley in Erzurum. The Kremlin calculators will think twice or more before they take on a people whom they may well regard as Finns with mountains-and a people who would probably get all-out U.S.-U.N. help...
...show's brightest attractions were the French girls Renoir was "always anxious to paint as beautiful fruits." Three-fourths of the pictures were dominated by his sloe-eyed, apple-cheeked, melon-curved women who had a tree-ripened look about them that few other painters could match. Filled with preternatural healthiness, they always seemed to enjoy themselves-boating, strolling on the beach, playing at shuttlecock, buying a hat or peacefully dozing...
...burnoose, Legrand often camped with Berbers, used them as models for such prophets as Joshua and Jeremiah (see cut). Once in his travels, he says, a Berber witch whose advances he repulsed put a spell on his drawing hand, made it swell to the size of a melon. "A native doctor took the spell away," he says. "Allah be praised...
Sometimes it tastes like lemon, sometimes like melon or hazelnut, and then like peppermint...
...president of the Red Academy, he took off his trousers for comfort while studying a military map. He smokes incessantly and tends his own tobacco patch. In 1938, the Party Central Committee gave him a $5 monthly raise so he could buy more cigarettes. Between noisy puffs, he chews melon seeds or peanuts. Until recently, when his doctors made him slow up, he used to wash down his heavy meals with kaoliang (grain liquor). Since then Mao has become something of a hypochondriac...