Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Turkish government last week rescinded a little law requiring internal exile for foreigners convicted of certain minor crimes. Most such exiles would have been overjoyed; not so U.S. Army Private Kenneth Baldwin, 30, whose banishment to isolated Kusadasi has turned out to be more a reward than a punishment (TIME, June...
...Letter); of a heart attack; in Lyme, Conn. Born in Czarist Russia, the son of a distinguished novelist-playwright, he fought with the Ukrainian army against the Communists in the civil war that followed the 1917 Revolution, emigrated in 1919 to the U.S. with only 14? in Turkish coins, worked as an engraver and house painter before achieving recognition for his meticulous drawings of humanized machines and mechanized humans. He produced four one-man exhibits in Paris, illustrated more than 50 books, wrote two children's fables (Poor Shaydullah, Seven Simeons), designed ballet settings, women's clothes, murals...
...Banished American" [June 25]: It seems to me that while in Kusadasi, Ken Baldwin has not only served adequate time for his circumstantial crime, but has taken a somewhat distasteful situation and converted it into a diplomatic mission. Since he has done so much to ease and elevate the Turkish view of America, I can see no reason why the U.S. Army can't find the compassion in its heart to pardon Mr. Baldwin...
Young Pianos. A perfectionist with a penchant for turtleneck pullovers and gold-tipped Turkish cigarettes, Michelangeli has made only a few recordings because he has "never quite been satisfied with the quality of the sound." On tour he travels with his own Steinway ("Can you imagine Oistrakh playing with Stern's violin?") and personal piano tuner, 71-year-old Cesare Augustus Tallone. With a surgeon's knowledge of the piano's inner workings, Michelangeli treats his Steinway like a high-strung child, recently relinquished it to be overhauled, explaining: "It's still too young and hasn...
Died. Admiral Martin Eric Dunbar-Nasmith, 82, British World War I naval hero and inventor of the retractable periscope, who in 1915 took submarine Ell through the Dardanelles minefields into the Sea of Marmara, where in 96 days he sank 96 Turkish ships, for which he got the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military decoration; of a kidney disease; in Elgin, Scotland...