Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Matthew B. Ridgway flew to Turkey to inspect the easternmost outpost of his NATO command. He conferred with the U.S. military mission in Ankara, inspected units of the tough, well-trained Turkish army, and journeyed to Turkey's mountain frontier with Russia. There, General Ridgway looked around with the help of a B.C. scope...
...Cairo daily, and, as one of Egypt's most respected reporters, has easy access to high officials. Kavoussi once worked for the. London Daily Express, has a sound knowledge of English. Other part-time correspondents in the Middle East are Riza Chandir in Istanbul, who operates his own Turkish news agency; Abu Said el Riche in Beirut, onetime correspondent for the London Daily Mail; Ernest Main on Cyprus and Monica Dehn in Israel. In addition to these, a wide network of observers maintains a flow of suggested stories to the Beirut headquarters...
...Naples last week went a blackberry-haired Turkish beauty named Gunzeli Basar. Seventeen connoisseurs picked her from a field of twelve as Miss Europe of 1952, even though her rivals protested that the competition was not fair-Gunzeli refused to appear in the last-ditch Bikini suit which is what Europe's best-undressed beauty queens wear these days. Miss France, the runner-up, remarked darkly: "Her thighs are not well modeled." But Gunzeli steadfastly stayed in her (relatively) conservative bathing costume and the judges stuck to their decision. Said Miss Europe, disdaining the movie contract offered...
...making modern Turkey, Kemal Ata-türk, one of the truly great men of this century, enlisted women in his army and abolished polygamy. In 1930 Turkish women got the vote and the right to public office.* Today women cast 60% of the Turkish vote, and three smart women sit in Parliament...
Childhood & Education: A king at three, Feisal had a brief fling at toys and tanks, lollipops, Flash Gordon movie serials and Superman comics before growing into a solemn-faced, rather lonely youngster, stuffed full of English, Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish, French and dynastic history. At 14, donned his father's old school tie and went off to Harrow (Winston Churchill's school). Got along with teachers & classmates, showed no signs of the anti-British feelings his father developed there after three Harrowing years...