Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During his 20 years as a Vatican diplomat in Bulgaria and in Greece and Turkey, John is said to have grown optimistic about the possibilities of closer relations with the Eastern church...
This becalming atmosphere reflected, in part, a change of heart among those outside powers concerned with Cyprus. Greece and Turkey, not on speaking terms two months ago, seem mutually appalled by disorder's reign, and are making private efforts to narrow their differences. Greece's Ambassador to Turkey has been shuttling between Athens and Ankara, setting the stage for a meeting in Paris this week between Turkish Foreign Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu and Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza. Greece is moving closer to abandoning its cry of enosis (union with Greece) and Turkey its demand for partition...
...Green is their quicksilver asides. In a take-off on 42nd Street flesh cinemas ("Doors open promptly at 3 a.m."), Doorkeeper Betty barks: "You've heard of Madame Pompadour, you've heard of Madame DuBarry. Now dig Madame Curie, the greatest madame of them all!" From their turkey Bonanza Bound, they resurrect Inspiration, which credits women with inspiring great men through the ages. "That's enough of that Oriental stuff," cries Betty as Composer Rimsky-Korsakov's wife. "Just look around you in your own backyard." Suddenly she sees a backyard bee, screams, and Adolph frantically...
...Washington's ever-growing diplomatic corps-the biggest in the world, with 82 heads of mission-that the White House had to divide its traditional state dinner into two separate functions a night apart; only the hosts and the menu (four wines, sole, turkey, spinach soufflé, strawberry ice cream molds) were identical. Aside from the President's spectacular Atlas announcement on the second night, only one incident ruffled the traditional decorum: Belgium's veteran Ambassador Baron Robert Silvercruys, normally the very picture of diplomatic dignity, provided a giddy moment when he picked up his wife...
...fine recruiting and indoctrinating center.) Key figure in this organization is a shadowy, fiftyish figure known chiefly by the front name Abdul Aziz Sherif. Fleeing Iraq when the old regime tried to arrest him in 1950, he visited Moscow, Bucharest and then Sofia, where the top Middle East Communist, Turkey's Nazim Heikmet, operates. Sherif returned to Iraq last July. Since the Communist Party is nominally illegal in Iraq, Sherif heads a three-man politburo which calls itself the "Iraqi High Committee." The overall Communist boss inside the Arab world is Syria's Khaled Bakdash, whom Nasser...