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Last week he slipped into Bremen from Istanbul and in waterfront bars rounded up the 40 Turkish crewmen of the Raman, an aged (1917), U.S.-built tanker of 7,800 tons which had found its way into Mardin's small merchant fleet. Five of the Turks sidled on to a German tugboat lashed alongside the Raman, and kept the tug's nightwatchman busy with a merry prattle in Turkish and gifts of Turkish cigarettes. The rest boarded the Raman and fired up her wheezy engines. Within minutes, the tanker edged away from the dock, dragging the tug with...
...year-old Turk...
...nowhere until Clooney's recording. Then it leaped from the ranks of the mere hits (any disk that sells 200,000 copies) into the enchanted circle of million-copy smashes. The song itself has keen likened by at least one fan magazine writer to the sounds a drunken Turk might make shouting down a well. The fact is that Clooney did as much for the song as the song...
...take a bead on a man and bring him down like a sack of hypocrisy. More's the pity that she writes pages of nonsensical epitaphs over her bleeding targets. The chip on her shoulder makes her believe that every man is as autocratic as a Turk and every female as malleable as a slave. Many of her protestations would strike even the inmates of a harem as being behind the times...
...exists for the sole purpose of providing a platform for freethinkers, nonconformists, exotics and eccentrics. Even so, the guest speaker at the club last week was something out of the ordinary. Introduced as a lecturer on sociology at the University of London, Dr. Mahesh Helai, a learned-looking Turk with a slight beard and sideburns, had chosen as his topic: "The Pleasure of Opium Eating...