Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oona and Charlie sleep in twin four-posters. He rises at 10 a.m., has his daily Turkish bath and, in winter, jogs around his property wearing three sweaters and an overcoat. He has taken up skiing, and he falls all over the slopes like a six-year-old, but he is trying hard to conquer the sport. In warm weather, he plays tennis and does calisthenics every day on the lawn. Sometimes he sips bourbon, which he once called "the only good thing America produces," but he never smokes and will not permit visitors to light up in his presence...
...wrote for the New York daily Tribune (later to become the Herald Tribune) more than a century ago. The time was the ill-fated Crimean War of 1853-56, in which a British-French expeditionary force, after many a blunder, frustrated Czarist Russia's plans to swallow the Turkish Empire. Correspondent Marx, then an impoverished freelance journalist scribbling in a London slum, looked beyond the surface meaning of the war, beyond the imperious figure of the Czar, and saw a "barbarous" power embarked on a campaign of world conquest...
Died. Harold Albert Lamb, 69, gifted popularizer of history who chronicled the Oriental despots from Genghis Khan to Suleiman the Magnificent, a dedicated student of the Middle East who could read Turkish, Arabic and Persian and during World War II was a top OSS agent in the area, yet could also expand the three known facts about the life of Omar Khayyam into 316 pages of entertaining reading and turn out movie scripts (The Golden Horde, The Crusades) that delighted the heart of Cecil B. DeMille; of stomach cancer; in the Mayo Brothers' Clinic in Rochester, Minn...
...Fantasia. Movie Producer Sam Spiegel hired Architect Edward Stone (TIME cover, March 31, 1958) to build a glossy Park Avenue duplex penthouse. With the help of his wife Maria, Stone turned the place into a never-never land of white marble, pink silk, Turkish lamps and other assorted fixtures of Cinemascopic proportions. The sunken marble tub is merely outsize; the master's bed looks roughly like a polo field covered in cardinal red velvet. Like all dedicated cinemagnates, Spiegel has his own home-projection facilities. The wide screen is hidden behind curtains. When he wants...
...Yazid, now F.L.N. Information Minister. Benkhedda pored over books on modern revolutions-French, American and Russian. He recalls wanting to cry out in protest when his history teacher duly noted that Algeria had never been independent-that when the French took it over in 1830, it was only a Turkish colony.-Graduating from the lycee, Benkhedda went on to study pharmacy-as did ex-Premier Ferhat Abbas-at the University of Algiers. He read incendiary tracts by Voltaire and Rousseau about human dignity, liberty and the rights of man-a reminder that the Algerian Revolution, like most colonial independence movements...