Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a barbed edge of truth in Nixon's jest. As the peripatetic Spiro Agnew sets out on yet another international jaunt, this time to Greece, Turkey and Iran, few men would envy anyone the task of handling the Vice President's press corps-small, hand-picked lot though they are.* Will Agnew make another gaffe like adversely comparing American black leaders to African dictators? Will he praise the Greek ruling junta as a force for law-and-order? Will he do nothing in Iran but play golf-or worse, just sit in his tent...
...Fixing turkey-gobbler necks costs about $500; smoothing out cheeks runs an estimated $1,250 to $1,500, while eyelid surgery costs from $600 to $1,000, and a full face-lift (rhytidectomy) can cost up to $2,500. Most of the males who pay those prices are in their 40s or 50s, and many of them are separated or divorced. For the married, the operation has hazards as well as benefits. Warns Hardin: "One of the aftereffects of a face-lift is often divorce...
...fake antiquities. A recent series of laboratory tests gives them good reason to be furious. A team of British and European experts, using a new dating technique, has reported that 48 of 66 objects thought to be from Hacilar, a settlement that existed 7,000 years ago in southwestern Turkey, are forgeries. The results of their investigations, published in the current issue of Oxford's Archaeometry, also showed that 25 "Etruscan" wall paintings on terra cotta, for which Swiss, American and other collectors have been paying up to $24,000 apiece, are less than twelve years...
...distrust of current archaeological concepts about ancient Anatolian culture. The Hacilar deposit was uncovered by British Archaeologist James Mellaart after he had been led to the spot by a Turkish farmer in 1956. Mellaart's find reversed the long-held belief that Anatolia, the area that is now Turkey, was only peripheral to the advanced Neolithic culture of Mesopotamia. So great was the wealth of the material found at Hacilar that some historians concluded that Anatolia, rather than Mesopotamia, was the cradle of civilization...
...SAVE THE U.N., BLOCK THE COMMUNISTS' ENTRY appeared on downtown walls. The foreign ministry organized regional conferences of its diplomats in Asia, Africa and Latin America in preparation for a new diplomatic offensive. The chances that such an offensive will succeed are slim indeed. Only last week, Turkey became the eighth NATO member (of 15) to recognize Peking and sever relations with Taipei, and Greece may soon follow suit. With reason, the Nationalists are increasingly fretful about diplomatic isolation, and they are no longer summarily breaking relations with governments that recognize Peking...