Word: pr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the first casualty figures came in from Korea-nearly 25% of the brigade-Wadsworth called on Köprülü to extend the U.S.'s condolences to the Turkish people. "Don't feel sorry for us, Mr. Ambassador," Köprülü said. "This is a most wonderful thing for Turkey. Since World War II, the world has been saying that Turkish soldiers were no good. Now the world will know we can fight, and will fight...
When the Korean war broke out, Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and his brilliant Foreign Minister, Fuat Köprülü, acted with courage and decision...
...Hacienda Pasteje, famed bull-breeding ranch near Mexico City, he spent a memorable Sunday. Years ago, wearing the short Andalusian suit of an aficionado práctico (practicing fan), Plaza had fought bulls as an amateur in Ecuador. Now a non-practicing fan, he sat in a jeep on rolling fields, to watch the artful passes at the young beasts made by his old friend of the cape, Jesus ("Chucho") Solorzano. Leathery Bullfighter Juan Silveti rolled up, slapped the President on the back, roared: "How's it going, Plaza old boy?" Plaza grinned. "I have a lot of friends...
When the curtain went up in the same Théátre des Champs-Elysées, remnants of the Parisian elite, teen-aged American fans, and unwashed philosophers from St.-Germain-des-Prés saw a dark-eyed, intense little dancer in a clinging, stone-colored gown standing starkly alone. It was barefoot Modernist Martha Graham, on her first excursion abroad with her own company...
...Paris sophisticates were delighted with the show. Orson Welles, Painter Georges Braque and Poet Paul Eluard were all on hand at the opening. Another poet, Jacques Prévert, had written a catalogue foreword which described Miró as "a smiling innocent gardener who strolls about in the garden of his dreams among the wild flowers of Multicolorado." It was a strange country, but Miro's multicolored Multicolorado did exert a cloudy charm on sympathetic visitors-just as children's paintings often...