Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find romance in the classrooms and M.I.T. men in the quadrangle. A rich Thanksgiving Day to poets in search of a rhyme and playwrights without a play, to oarsmen out of practice, Romeos out of luck, and house masters out of pocket. A very well-stuffed and basted turkey to these people, and a generous second helping to the delinquents in the class on criminology...
Mission to Paris. The Communist arms deal with Egypt was a large and astute coup for the Russians, in effect enabling them to leapfrog the northern-tier defense (Turkey, Iraq, Iran) just set up by the West. It promised to be an embarrassment to the West, but to neighboring Israel it threatened to be a disaster. Israel's Pre mier Moshe Sharett rushed to Paris and then to Geneva to try to get help from the Western foreign ministers. He told them that his people were so wrought up over the Egyptian deal that they were seriously thinking...
...outbreak of fanatical hatred against the Greek citizens of Turkey [NEWS IN PICTURES, Oct. 10] shocks me. What has shocked me even more is the way that both London and Washington have tried officially to overlook the gruesome episode for the sake of preserving unity in NATO...
...this stout performance merely made it harder for U.S. officials to give their answer when Zorlu arrived in Washington last summer and formally held out his hand. The State Department had come generally to the same conclusions as Max Thornburg, was, if anything, more certain that Turkey's present course leads to bankruptcy. Additional U.S. millions, Zorlu was told, would merely stay the day, and Turkey would be back in a matter of months for more. When U.S. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey went to Turkey last month for the World Bank meeting, he put the U.S. position directly...
...Turkish government called in yet another adviser to give it the benefit of his advice and his knowledge of the ways of U.S. Government. As the legal counsel to the Turkish government in the U.S. (TIME, Oct. 16), Manhattan Lawyer Thomas E. Dewey has already taken a look at Turkey's economic affairs and will soon be busy in the U.S. studying what can be done about them. Turkey seems to expect that in return for his retainer-$150,000- Tom Dewey will be able to turn a loud no into a multimillion-dollar yes. But Dewey carefully cleared...