Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stay in the U.S. He had lectured at Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, M.I.T., spoken before influential groups in New York, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Birmingham, Nashville and Washington, D.C. Everywhere, he refused to be drawn into a discussion of domestic politics: "Foreign policy is not a party matter in Turkey . . . I have been conscious of my opportunity to serve my country, and I have tried to emphasize the broad national issues. I've tried to emphasize the constructive part of my country's policies. In this way, I think, because I'm a member of the opposition...
...Bastion in FOREIGN NEWS deals with the recently concluded Iraq-Turkey defense treaty to which I would like to add a footnote supplied by Keith Wheeler, our Middle East correspondent. Wheeler was dining with KING SAUD of Saudi Arabia the night the King got the news that the treaty had been signed. Cabled Wheeler on the King's reaction: "It is his custom to have an official crier call out the latest news bulletins during meals. The treaty news was bad news for the Arabs. It came between the turkey with green beans and the steak with truffles...
...back from Bangkok, Britain's Anthony Eden suggested to Iraq's Premier Nuri es-Said that Britain is ready to join the Turkish-Iraqi alliance and to replace the expiring Anglo-Iraqi pact with a new association . . . in line with those which already exist with Turkey and other partners in NATO. " Britian's connection with Iraq is oil, which is Baghdad's chief source of revenue: $100 million a year...
Died. Husseyin Ragip Baydur, 65, Turkish Ambassador to Britain, onetime Ambassador to the U.S. (1945-48) and Turkish delegate to the U.N. General Assembly (1946-47); in London. A strong advocate of closer ties with the U.S., Baydur played an important part in Turkey's flat rejection of Russia's demands for joint control of the Dardanelles...
...What about this one? . . . Oh, yes. That's very much more you, sir. Comfy? Comfy?" There is the usual lecherous intern (named Benskin and known as "the ravishing reindeer") and the redheaded night nurse ("You succulent starched uniform with a soft center"); the inevitable cold turkey of a head nurse ("You will not walk upon any part of the floor that has recently been polished") and a ruddy great bear ("Sister, how in Hades do you expect me to operate with this jam spreader?") of a head surgeon (James Robertson Justice...