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Dates: during 1940-1949
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State of Siege. One night, in a village restaurant between the Black Sea and Ankara, my dinner was interrupted by a group of grizzled oldsters drinking raki (grape brandy). One called across the smoky room: "When are you Americans going to stop the Russians?" No country in the West so deeply hates and fears the Russians. Turkey lives in a state of siege. Russian propagandists have been claiming Turkey's eastern provinces for the Soviet motherland. Radio Sofia purrs the happy lot of Bulgaria's Turkish minority; Radio Azerbaijan calls on all Kurds, including Turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Wild West of the Middle East | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...junior varsity scored once against Dartmouth here yesterday. That was all it took to stop the Indian jayvees, 6 to 0, and thus gain Harvard's first major football victory of the season...

Author: By Pete Taub, | Title: Jayvees Lick Green, 6-0, For first Football Victory | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

...NORTHAMPTON MASS" it said. That didn't make any sense. Vag went on. "SORRY CAN'T COME FOR GAME MUST STAY WITH SICK MOTHER STOP SOME OTHER TIME," Vag read it carefully twice over, then crumpled it into a small ball and flipped it toward the wastebasket. It bounced off the rim, and sat smugly on the edge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

...After a stop at the Circuit Court of Appeals, the Communist conspiracy case will move to the U. S. Supreme Court. Here the Justices will have to deal with a highly important issue: the constitutionality of the Smith Act, under which the 11 indictments were brought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: After the Trial | 10/20/1949 | See Source »

Crusader. In Fort Scott, Kans., Bus Driver Walter Anneberg fumed at a grade crossing while a freight train held up traffic for 25 minutes, stepped on the gas the minute it had passed, parked his bus on the tracks to stop an oncoming switch engine, and waved his fellow motorists through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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