Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grating whine of a hydraulic accumulator and sometimes a distant cheer from students who get a cranky car started. Many entries are over in the repair section. Berkeley's yellow, gull-winged two-seater, with students draped all over its chassis, is splayed open like' a turkey awaiting stuffing."A little overhaul?" asks the car owner. "Overhaul, hell!" snaps a student mechanic. &"We're building it for the first time...
...Driver's license, of a special Mass. drinking card that will cost you $5, issued by a department headed by one of King's cronies. Most places--except for Father's Six, a townie dive--don't card you unless your voice cracks when you ask for the Wild Turkey, but during Freshman Week places in the Square may be a little more cautious...
...point out to General Sir John that, despite his access to top-secret documents, he has missed the basic point of recent U.S. military policy in the Eastern Mediterranean--to keep Israel as a friendly naval and air base in light of the instability of both Greece and Turkey...
...when the next John Wayne film will come out. In Burma, the Duke's picture hangs in a corner restaurant. An Afghani shop owner, addressing my question of how life has changed under the new pro-Soviet regime, replies that the John Wayne movies have gone. In eastern Turkey, when I tell a nomad I am from America, he reaches to his side in a mock draw and with a big grin exclaims. "John Wayne!" Now. back in the U.S.. a South African tourist asks me if I know that John Wayne is dead. He heard the news...
...world also stepped up. Last Friday four terrorists, led by what one bystander called a "tall, blond and tough-looking Palestinian," stormed their way into the Egyptian embassy in Ankara, firing automatic weapons. They seized 20 hostages, including Ambassador Ahmed Kamal Olama and his son. The terrorists demanded that Turkey sever its relations with Egypt and Israel, release two Palestinian prisoners in Egypt and provide a flight to a friendly Arab country. The gunmen, reported to belong to the Revolutionary Eagles of Palestine, part of a Syrian-backed faction of the P.L.O., threatened to blow up the building unless their...