Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Junior Tamar Atinc stands out as one of the few foreign students involved in women's sports at Harvard. The 5-ft., 4-in. guard for the women's basketball squad, who hails from Turkey, now calls Quincy House and the IAB home...
...Turkey, athletics are less prominent than they are here. There are no professional teams, only amateur squads, of which basketball ranks a distant third behind the more popular soccer and wrestling...
...village roots. One of 13 children, he was born on Christmas Day 59 years ago in the little (then pop. 2,000) Nile settlement of Mit Abu el Kom. His father was a military hospital clerk who so much admired Kemal Atatūrk, the founder of modern Turkey, that he named his sons after Turkish officers. His mother was an illiterate Sudanese. He grew up hating the colonial British. When the upper-class Military Academy was opened up in 1936 to all Egyptians-a decision that changed the future of the country-Sadat was one of 52 boys picked...
Weird and wonderful things go on sale during the holiday season, from His and Her windmills ($16,000 each) at Neiman-Marcus in Dallas to 15-lb. boxes of Irish peat ($14.90), which one Rhode Islander is advertising as Yule fuel. This year one can even buy a turkey dinner-buy dinner, that is, for Meleagris gallapavo, the American wild turkey. The offer comes from the Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary on Martha's Vineyard, where as many as 650 wild ducks, geese and turkeys peck through 200 Ibs. of corn, oats, wheat and high-protein dog food...
...recovery rate for youths with drug problems "once they find the Lord." Confirming the claim. Franklin Jones, a psychiatrist who heads the methadone program at nearby Brea Hospital says: "My own program is a failure. I came here because they're taking kids off heroin cold turkey. What's more, they stay...