Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Presided over Christmas dinner with the family, including grandchildren. Main item: a 42-lb. turkey...
Internationally, he achieved what the Czars had long desired: a foothold for Russia?however uncertain it might be?in the Middle East. He proved the foothold's reality by a war scare that set the world's nerves on edge, creating it with one brash rocket-rattling threat against Turkey, then dispelling it with one cocktail-party crack as soon as his pro-Communists had consolidated their control of Syria. More than any other man, Nikita Khrushchev dominated 1957's news and left his mark?for good or evil?on history...
Next day came yet another round of talks-this time with Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis and Turkey's Adnan Menderes. Menderes. whose country is in serious economic straits, came away "very happy-very happy indeed" over what he interpreted as assurances that the Baghdad Pact countries, including Turkey, could count on increased military and economic assistance from the U.S. But neither in the talks with Ike nor in their subsequent luncheon with British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and NATO's Paul-Henri Spaak did Menderes and Karamanlis come to grips with the Cyprus quarrel that has set their...
There were specific disappointments. French nationalists complained that the NATO leaders had not given France the ringing endorsement it sought for its Algerian policies. In the Arab nations of the Middle East there was widespread wrath at Turkey's Adnan Menderes. "The Turk will never understand the Arab," complained a Lebanese daily, outraged because Menderes had not pushed at Paris for the current Arab dream of forcing Israel back inside the restricted borders granted it by the U.N. in 1947. Fearful of just such a maneuver, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion tried to counter by sending...
...westernizing Turkey in the 1920s, Turkey's Mustafa Kemal Ataturk prohibited "astrologers, fortunetellers and dervishes," and the Mevlevi order went underground. Now the ban is being lifted quietly by the Turkish government; in addition to its monastic members, the order has some half million lay members in Turkey. That Founder Jalal al-Din Rumi and his teachings are still a living force was demonstrated last week in Istanbul when 200 policemen turned out to cope with 4,000 enthusiasts who broke the windows and smashed the counter of the city's main post office. Cause of the riot...