Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although most House members said they welcomed the change in menu, others admitted they were disappointed at Sunday's dinner in particular. Complained one student's date, "It tasted like turkey...
...after his arrival in Denver, Sherman Adams was permitted to see the President for six minutes. The conversation was limited to Adams' recent trip abroad, and Ike was particularly interested in his fishing expeditions last summer in German streams where Ike himself had fished, and in Turkey, at the headwaters of the Euphrates River, where Adams fished for golden trout...
...Intervened. Secretary of State Dulles, who already had sent a note to Turkey expressing "deep concern" over the riots, dispatched his stern appeal to the two NATO allies. "I believe that the unity of the North Atlantic community, which is the basis of our common security, must be restored," said he. The Greeks exploded at the absence of any words of sympathy for the victims of the Turkish riots. "Mr. Dulles placed criminals and victims on the same level," cried Athens' newspaper, Vima, with considerable justice...
Next day, in the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. asserted itself again, joined Britain and Turkey in voting down Greece's request for a full U.N. debate of the Cyprus dispute. The U.S. view was that an exposure of the matter to the many tongues of the U.N. would simply make matters worse; the Greek view was that this was treachery. "Greece must leave NATO," cried the respectable right-wing daily, Ethnos. "Greece cannot remain inside this jungle of crooks and black mailers." Opponents of the government, weak and indecisive because of the illness of its chief, Old Soldier...
...Turkey, the government used martial law in Istanbul and Ankara to close five of the nation's biggest newspapers-one indefinitely, four for two weeks. Chief reason: most of them had printed a request from ex-President Ismet Inonu for a parliamentary investigation into the government's handling of the destructive riots against Turkey's Greek minority {see FOREIGN NEWS...