Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubt about it, the alliance had a sorry look last week. Its Eastern Mediterranean anchor was fouled by the Cyprus dispute, so that only a handful of Greek officers are back on duty at NATO's eastern headquarters in Izmir, Turkey. On the northwestern flank of the alliance, the "codfish war" between Britain and Iceland was hardly a war, but it was less than friendship...
GREECE REJECTS CYPRUS TALKS, Said the headlines. All of NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak's tireless efforts (TIME, Nov. 3) to gather a conference to settle the three-year-old Cyprus dispute between Britain, Greece and Turkey fell apart last week. The Greek government, which dares not show itself more conciliatory than Cyprus' bearded Archbishop Makarios, said...
...other half of the matter was that though the British had made some procedural concessions, they were plainly not going to budge on anything basic. "We came to the conclusion," announced Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis, "that the conference as conceived by Britain and Turkey would not lead to any positive results...
...food is wretched, the beds are lumpy and the place has no central heating. But to Turkey's top newsmen, a stay at the "Ankara Hilton" has become a matter of personal and professional pride. Reason: the wryly nicknamed "Ankara Hilton" is the special bullpen in Ankara's Central Prison for newsmen who have dared to criticize the government of Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes...
Golf pros may blow easy putts, a tennis champ double faults, and it is only reasonable to expect on occasion a painter will turn out a turkey, even as great a painter as Rembrandt. But with all due allowances for human frailty, Rembrandt's early St. Bartholomew has long made Rembrandt scholars uneasy. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum labeled the painting "attributed to Rembrandt" when it was received as a bequest, later returned it to the donor's estate. This week the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum unveiled a new acquisition that unmasks the mystery: a new version...