Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pakistan is perhaps America's best friend between Turkey and the Philippines; it has no illusions about Communism and, given help, might be made into the free world's South Asian bastion. ¶ Pakistan's 13-division army, re-equipped, could hold the Khyber Pass. ¶ From Pakistan's air bases, particularly the two great British-built airfields near Karachi, the U.S. Air Force would be within jet-bomber range of the Karaganda-Alma Ata refuge of Soviet industry, far beyond the Ural Mountains. ¶ A pact between the U.S. and Pakistan might spur other Moslem...
...there were difficulties. One was whether the U.S. should extend to Pakistan its guarantee to defend other peoples' boundaries (by NATO pact, the U.S. has already promised to defend 13 nations, extending in a vast crescent from Iceland to Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey). A budget-conscious new U.S. Administration is also not keen to take on another $250 million worth of foreign obligations. Furthermore, the U.S. is aware that Pakistan wants a strong army not only to protect itself against Russia, but against India, which it passionately dislikes, largely because of the Kashmir dispute...
...Army of Northern Virginia. By 1864, not only morale but men were ebbing away as their enlistments came to an end. Yet Grant pinned his faith on hard-bitten veterans like the soldier who said: "They use a man here just the same as they do a turkey at a shooting match, fire at it all day and if they don't kill it raffle it off in the evening; so with us, if they can't kill you in three years they want you for three more-but I will stay...
...years ago today, Ellsworth P. Van Rensselaer Jones, a former Crimed, punctured his esophagus with the metatarsal bone of a turkey as he tripped over a rock at Plymouth. In fitting memory to this valiant biology editor, there will be no Crime tomorrow...
There last week, covered with earth from each of Turkey's 64 provinces, the Father of the Turks finally came to rest. His grateful people had spent $12 million and labored nine years to build their tribute to the dictator who modernized his ancient land and bequeathed it democracy (TIME, Oct. 12). An elderly officer standing by spoke quietly to a friend: "I was on active duty during his funeral, when I shed bitter tears at the finality of death. Today I am not sad, for 15 years have taught me that Ataturk will never...