Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Nikita Khrushchev rattled his rockets outside their borders, the people of Turkey went calmly and resolutely to the polls this week to choose a new Parliament on wholly domestic issues. The reason for this sturdy indifference was simple: all Turks agree that in foreign affairs, the country stands foursquare with NATO and the West...
...cell batteries flown in from Europe and passed out free to rural villages so that he could be sure farmers would receive his election harangues loud and clear on their battery-driven sets. Pointing to the new factories and dams on which he has expended every penny that Turkey could earn or borrow abroad, Premier Menderes cried: "We will be a small America before many more years...
...Republicans were led by their old hero, Ismet Inonu, 73, World War II President and chosen successor of the late great Kemal Ataturk himself. They charged that Menderes' reckless extravagance had only created economic chaos, that foreigners now refuse to ship Turkey even vital medicines without cash on the barrelhead, that the only thing Turkey has plenty of is yok (nothing). They complained that Menderes had suppressed freedom of the press, packed the courts to rubber-stamp his decisions, and altered the election code to keep opposition parties from forming coalition slates. Yet the windup rallies in Istanbul were...
...this thankless job without a broad agreement with the government, without a prospect of resolving the conflict." In New York, where he was busy lobbying for next month's U.N. Cyprus debate, Archbishop Makarios shrugged: "A solution is just a matter of time. Cyprus will be free." But Turkey's President Celal Bayar still growled that Turkey will never let an island 40 miles off its coast fall into Greek hands. Most hopeful solution: an independent Cyprus within the British Commonwealth, with defense facilities on the island to be British in fact, but NATO's in name...
...tongue-in-dimpled-cheek musical adaptation by Douglass (Damn Yankees) Wallop of the old Owen Johnson stories. Much of the play lived up to Alistair Cooke's introduction of it as "a gentle thing, both odd and funny." When the boola overflowed with the fun of the Turkey trot, ragtime and jagtime at Mory's, and naughty dancing girls at lesser saloons, Stover came delightfully alive...