Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inscrutable, tooth less faces of a small group of old people and murmur that he was going to work for "full employment and equal opportunities"; only he could deliver a major farm speech in an industrial center (Janesville)-with only 150 (cityfolk) present. Somewhat symbolic, moreover, was the King Turkey Day in Worthington, Minn., which featured a parade of 150 live, gobbling turkeys and the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, who managed an apprehensive smile when the mayor plumped a nervous turkey into his hands. As the days wore on, Kefauver began to show slight signs of weariness. Once he blooped...
Other planned spending: ¶$429 million in Great Britain for airplanes and armored personnel carriers. ¶ $166 million in Turkey for ammunition. ¶ $166 million in Italy for ammunition and small aircraft...
...Turkey, where the voice of civil liberties is thready and thin these days (TIME, July 9), trim (at 71) Opposition Leader Ismet Inönü, head of the Republican People's Party, had trouble taking a foot-first dive at the resort island of Heybeli near Istanbul. His plunging technique was fine, but cops, who keep close track of Inönü soon moved in to break up the crowd of onlookers. The ludicrous pretext for their action: Turkey's longtime (1938-50) President Inönü and his fellow frolickers looked suspiciously like...
Tunisia thus becomes the second predominantly Moslem state to reform its marriage laws (the first was Kemal Ataturk's Turkey). But the abolition of polygamy, the Tunisian government assured everybody, would not be retroactive: those who have four wives may keep them...
Besides Gulek's own display of personal courage, one sign that democracy is not yet dead in Turkey was the big black headlines in Istanbul's newspapers on Gulek's Black Sea trip. Despite the Menderes press-muzzling laws, the papers circumspectly managed to get the idea across...