Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demand for union with Greece. Sir Hugh Foot, the liberal-minded governor who went to Cyprus four months ago talking confidently of compromise, had seen his suggestions pigeonholed by the Tory government, which discovered that every formula that would satisfy its ally Greece was vetoed by its ally Turkey...
...Syndicate, we are discontinuing our society columns." Though the ban was made to seem a do-it-yourself affair, it was actually inspired by none other than Premier Adnan Menderes himself. The columnists, it seemed, had been giving too much gaudy publicity to The marriage of a former Miss Turkey to the mayor of Izmir, who also happens to be a cousin of the Premier's wife. Among other morsels, the columns reported that the Izmir city council had "volunteered" to pay a year's rent on a seaside apartment for the happy couple...
Such items, in a country where editors can be jailed for criticizing the government or its members, offer one of the few opportunities left to Turkey's editors to get in some sly jabs at Menderes and his governing Democrats. But Adnan Menderes seems to feel that even a little is too much, and that he can never have too many clubs to beat the press with. Last November he invoked the well-worn dictator's device of taking over control of all newsprint. Newspapers were forbidden to import any newsprint of their own, thus leaving them...
...Forgiven? J.B. is a banker, the richest man in town, respected by all and loved by his wife Sarah and their children, David, Mary, Jonathan, Ruth and Rebecca. They eat a Thanksgiving turkey, talk about God and gratitude. Then the disasters strike. Playwright MacLeish stage-manages them deftly with a tabloid editor's eye for sordid shock effect and a flexible poetic line to match. Two drunken soldiers blurt out news of the death of David; a news cameraman snaps a picture of J.B. and Sarah while a reporter is telling them that Mary and Jonathan have been killed...
...Turkey last week U.S. buyers of the new tobacco crop found their hard-cash deals being squeezed by satellite countries. Americans buy at the official rate of 2.8 liras to the dollar. The Communists pay in barter deals at a rate of 14 to 15 liras to the dollar-covering the cost by boosting prices of their goods. Much of the Red-bought tobacco does not go to satellite citizens, but is eventually sold in the U.S. for dollars. Since U.S. companies have recently found a better, cheaper tobacco in Greece, they are not worried by Red competition in Turkey...