U.S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt took his place last week in the long line of Turkey's suitors. He looked the situation over. He needed Lebensraum because the small, comparatively shabby U.S. Embassy could seat only twelve guests for dinner. And he needed household goods; the Embassy did not have a set of glassware that matched. Even if he and British Ambassador Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen had stagged the leading nightclubs until 3 in the morning with Turkey's Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu, there was more formal entertaining to be done. The newly arrived...
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