Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fire extinguisher. In Mexico, 3,500,000 houses have been sprayed. The program is well along in Central America, coastal Ecuador and Peru, Formosa, Swaziland and Ceylon. It is finished in northern Venezuela, several Caribbean islands and parts of Argentina. Soon to feel the fine spray of DDT are Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Burma, the Philippines...
Loved for His Enemies. Noting the rising attack on Dulles, his friends, often less articulate than his enemies, have begun to rally. Turkey, threatened only last fall by Khrushchev's rocket-rattling, is all the way for Dulles. In Bonn, a West German Cabinet minister, while urging more energetic U.S. leadership, added thanks for America's Dulles: "We would rather have a purposeful man than a gambler. The stakes are too great. Dulles is a sober man. He would never go to Munich, as Chamberlain...
Such a settlement would be fought bitterly by the Turks, who argue that Greek possession of Cyprus would be a strategic menace to Turkey, insist that if Britain gives up Cyprus, the island must be partitioned between Greece and Turkey. The obvious danger was that Foot's plan might end EOKA violence only to set off a new wave of disorder by Volkan, the Turkish Cypriot underground...
...elder Insull was jailed in Turkey while, awaiting deportation to the U.S. for trial, and again for a week in Cook County while his son raised $200,000 bail. But he was found innocent of all charges: mail fraud, embezzlement, and violation of the bankruptcy laws...
...uniform after an undesirable discharge, quested for a job and anonymity. But Girard's Japanese wife Candy was getting a warmer reception from the locals than Bill. While he was unsuccessfully seeking work, she was neatly fitting herself into his family, even helped fix the Christmas turkey. Girard was moaning meek and low: "All I want to do is get me a job, make a good living, be a good husband and just be an average guy. I don't want no part of the limelight ever again...