Word: turkishly
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...curt note Moscow rejected the witness-backed U.S. statement that three fighter planes had intercepted an unarmed Air Force C-130 transport and its 17-man crew near the Turkish border on Sept. 2. forced it to fly into Soviet Armenia, where it crashed and burned. Instead, the Russians accused the U.S. of attempting to justify an "intentional violation" of the Soviet border, promised only that the bodies of six crew members found in the wreckage would be returned...
...airmen still unaccounted for. If the airmen were dead, the Soviets would have no reason to hide the fact. If they were alive, were the Russians holding them hostage? Or were they at large in the Armenian hills, attempting to avoid capture, hoping to make it back across the Turkish frontier...
...hand at the Bedouin bargaining table, the scholars began making counteroffers. Finally, last summer, during the height of the Middle East crisis, Cross and Jordanian Curator Yusuf Saad of the Palestine Archaeological Museum sat down with Kando for a bit of high-class haggling over tea and Turkish cigarettes...
...later said he would like to return to Cyprus because he had some, "but not very great," hopes that he could help toward a settlement. Crucial date was Oct. 1, by which time Turkey is scheduled to appoint its official adviser to Cyprus' Governor. Said Makarios: "If the Turkish representative goes to Nicosia and Sir Hugh enforces the British plan, it will be the beginning of the biggest troubles yet." Best British hope was that, at the last minute, the Greeks might agree to cooperate with the plan rather than be left out of it entirely...
...Turkish baths go, the establishment beneath London's Imperial Hotel in Russell Square is one of the best. From its Gothic galleries, stone monarchs and prophets (Queen Elizabeth I, Erasmus) have gazed through the steam at generations of bare, Blimpish backsides. One night last week the steam rooms and massage parlors presented a shocking sight: crowds of people who were fully dressed, or almost. To celebrate the London premiere of Auntie Mame, starring Bea Lillie, Producer David Pelham had picked the Turkish bath as the logical place for a party. The result was as wacky a shindig...