The Stampede Has Started In Istanbul ISTANBUL—Five centuries at ter Greeks and Turks engaged in bitter conflict around its ancient walls, the city of Istanbul faces the modern conflict of trucks and automobiles, streetcars and pedes trians, all seeking room to move. Beside the Golden Horn, auto matic traffic signals of American design, parking meters, garages, and parking lots are proposed to solve problems having origins in a city founded when men rode horses. Istanbul is a great seaport, btn it is menaced on the land side by bottlenecks. The Galata Bridge over the world famous Golden Horn is one of the bottlenecks. At rush huurs. traffic slows to a crawl as . commuters jam into an area where there is not only the bridge, but : the ferry to the Bosporus, the streetcar to Bebek and the tunnel to the heights of Bcyoglu tPera). Stamboul Modernizing The Golden Horn is a curving in 1 let into the shoreline of Europe. Even in the days when the great city that straddles this inlet was called Constantinople, the section to the south was known as Stam boul. South from Galata Bridge, the view now includes not only an un paralleled panorama of minarets and mosque domes, but a steel and concrete picture composed of the city's leading department stores, its central post office, the railway station for the Orient Express, and fine educational institutions* all m Stamboul. Left behind on the north bank is Istanbul's most noticeable sky scraper. the Galata Tower, center of the Genoese colony and office of foreign ambassadors. Movies Draw Crowds Normal business traffic in the Galata bottleneck is swelled by movement of pleasure seekers from the coffee shops and the mos que courts of Stamboul to the movie palaces, night clubs, casino and open-air opera of Beyoglu. Western visitors are intrigued by the city's two-car trams, now facing stern competition from taxis, buses, and private cars So crowded are these streetcars that ■ honest passengers pass their fares along to the conductor through several hands

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