Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George M.A. Hanfmann, professor of Fine Arts, will lead a party of fourteen in futher excavation efforts at Sardis, Turkey. Hanfmann's group made an exceptional find last year when they discovered a potter's workshop dating from the time of the Lydian kings...
...Sent to Congress negotiated agreements to supply nonnuclear elements of nuclear-weapons systems to West Germany, The Netherlands, Turkey, Canada. ¶ Named John Howard Morrow, 49, Negro professor of modern languages at Durham's North Carolina College, to be first U.S. ambassador to the newborn Republic of Guinea...
Quiet Village (Martin Denny Group; Liberty). A smoothly arranged fancy with the theme laid down in beguine tempo by Pianist Denny, and bongo color provided by Hawaiian Percussionist Augie Colon, who is inclined to caterwaul like a turkey buzzard., croak like a frog, or shriek like a cheetah. Blended with Buddhist bells, Burmese cymbals and the West Indian guiro, these noises so far this year have helped sell 60,000 Denny albums, all labeled like bargain-counter perfumes -Exotica, Hypnotique, Afro-Desia...
Eight Hours a Day. Darvas studied economics at the University of Budapest, fled Hungary for Turkey in World War II (he still holds Turkish citizenship), methodically trained eight hours a day to become a dancer. He came to the U.S. in 1951, got interested in the market in 1952 when a Toronto nightclub owner paid him off in a mining stock that promptly trebled. (He sold it at that point; it later collapsed.) Darvas trained for the market just as methodically as he had studied his dancing, read some 200 books on the market and the great speculators, spent eight...
...Inonu's spirited welcome and the public resentment against his rough treatment suggest that the country may be fairly evenly divided at the moment. At week's end Inonu canceled a scheduled visit to Berlin. Said he: "I do not believe it would be wise to leave Turkey at a time when the country is in such an excited state...