Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crushed ice. For easy reading, recipes are flashed onto a screen when they are placed in a photographic viewer. The sink provides water at any temperature from a single faucet. An electronic oven rises at the press of a button, bakes potatoes in five minutes or roasts a turkey in 45. Even the flour-sifter is motor-driven...
...Moviemaker Roberto Rossellini, was mass-booked into 67 neighborhood theaters in Greater New York last Monday, yanked out again on Thursday. The reason was painfully apparent to those who saw the picture. Written and directed, like Ingrid's last picture, Stromboli, by husband Rossellini, it is a murky turkey that gabbles about Christianity and Communism. "The fault," wrote New York Times Critic Bosley Crowther, "is quite plainly not Miss Bergman's ... It is notable that [she] has grown older gracefully, with more strength and beauty in her eternally interesting face...
This project does not even have an official name; it was not even announced, only leaked. Its existence means that the West's original, highly touted but overadvertised MEDO (Middle East Defense Organization) is dead. MEDO, in fact, was stillborn. In November 1951 the U.S., Britain, France and Turkey proposed a Middle East Command as a kind of eastern extension of NATO, complete with blueprints for bases, armies and fleets, and a headquarters at Cyprus. It had everything, in fact, but the support of the people most concerned...
...last week, without trumpet call or handout, the plan was under way. Leaders of Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are preparing to visit Pakistan. Shortly, the U.S. is expected to approve the first arms shipments to Pakistan...
...more than a quarter of a century, peppery Dr. (of medicine) Fuat Husuli Tugay has been considered one of Turkey's key diplomatic representatives abroad. But even a diplomat can forget his diplomacy where his wife is concerned. Last November, while he was at home on leave from his job as Turkish Ambassador to Egypt, Diplomat Tugay learned that Egypt's new revolutionary government had decided to confiscate the property of all blood relatives of the deposed King Farouk. Under normal circumstances, no foreign emissary would concern himself with such a purely domestic affair, but it happens that...