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Against this awesome-looking array Harvard is not totally defenseless, however. On the field event squad it boasts Hasan Kayali, the Turkish-born jumper who has gone undefeated in the high and triple jumps in the three meets Harvard has swept this season. As a competitor, Kayali is a master of the art of one-upmanship. During the Boston College meet, in the long jump, BC jumper Amjad Ghori leaped the prodigious distance of 22' 10". From the reaction of the BC fans it was obvious that Ghori had just jumped the longest distance of his life, apparently sewing...
After everyone was seated in the conference room, Sadat suddenly clapped his hands twice and shouted: "Ahwa, shay"-coffee, tea. A pair of waiters carrying trays of tea and Turkish coffee came hurriedly into the room and served the delegates. Reaching for a glass of green shay, Sadat recalled: "I drank very good tea in Jerusalem." The Israelis never ceased being startled throughout the conference by the Egyptian President's hand clapping...
...things, he is studying the language of German prostitutes and Peruvian criminals, American college slang, Mojave insult gestures and the terminology of Chinese eunuchs. In an Olympics of world cursing, he believes that Yiddish would rank high, and Hungarian would win the blasphemy prize hands down. Also notable are Turkish rhymed insults, deadly serious Eskimo singing duels and a sneaky insult in Hindi that translates literally as "brother-in-law" but actually means "I slept with your sister." In general, says Aman, Anglo-Saxon cultures prefer insults dealing with excrement and body parts, Catholic countries are fond of blasphemy...
...Athens conspired with extremist Greek Cypriots to topple Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus. Their goal was to unite the island republic with Greece. Makarios barely escaped with his life and fled into exile. His place was usurped by Nikos Sampson, notorious for having committed acts of terrorism against the Turkish minority on Cyprus. After a week of protests and warnings, Ankara moved unilaterally to avert Greek annexation of the island; Turkish paratroops and landing craft invaded. Sampson fell. So, within days, did his mentors in Athens. Makarios returned to Cyprus, and democracy was restored in Greece...
...there was no happy ending. The Turkish invasion force dug in, occupying the northern third of the island. Congress, over the objections of the Ford Administration, responded by cutting off American military supplies to Turkey. So it has continued for three years: Cyprus remains politically divided and economically shattered; Greece and Turkey, Politically divided, economically shattered. ostensible partners in the Atlantic Alliance, are enemies united only by their distaste...