Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Mushklatsch. In 1932, when a headline-hunting congressional committee warned Nathan that "dramatic criticism has destroyed the legitimate spoken drama of our country," Nathan's retort killed the projected investigation as cold as any Broadway turkey. Said he: "Dramatic criticism has made over the American drama from mushklatsch. It is necessary for dramatic criticism to show no mercy toward what still persists of the ignorant older order and to butcher it to death as quickly as possible...
...trophy-filled office resembling the living room of a big-game hunter, which he is, Dick Boutelle's first move was to stalk any idea that promised a profit. He toyed with a lightweight train, a gasoline-filled glider as an aerial tanker, even a mechanically operated wild-turkey caller. "We'd even make corsets if we saw a profit," said Boutelle...
...last week to cheer as President Iskander Mirza, surrounded by his bodyguard of Lancers in uniforms of scarlet, green and gold, drove by in his state coach to preside at a parade of Pakistan's military might, backed by contingents from fellow Baghdad Pact Members Iran, Iraq and Turkey. But beneath the brave fagade, Pakistan was a sick and sad nation...
...advertising. Advertisers must place their ads with the agency, and Minister of State Emin Kalafat allocates them to whatever publication he chooses. So far, the agency has not worked too well: some advertisers are insisting on having their ads placed in the publications of their own choice. But if Turkey's publishers had any doubts about the power of the government's new club, they had only to consider the case of 33-year-old Metin Toker. Last year Toker spent seven months in jail for having criticized a government official in his weekly TIME-styled newsmagazine Akis...
...PIPELINE DEAL is ready for signing by U.S. allies in Middle East. Agreement has been drafted to lay $500 million 1,100-mile line from Iran's Qum field (TIME, May 6) to Turkey's Mediterranean port of Iskenderun, and the two nations have offer of financial help from U.S. investors headed by Wall Street's Allen & Co. Prospect is that Iraq will hook into line via short feeder pipe, thus bypassing Syria...