Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...known anything but candles, got the shipyards going, and brought strength to the nation's banks. Today Greece's drachma for once commands confidence at home and abroad. Tourists who once chose Italy or France now flock to enjoy the thin sun, sail out to the Aegean islands, and scramble around the magnificent rubble of the Acropolis...
Second indication of Athens' strong-tactics was the issuing of the , which insisted "violently " that Athenian coins, , and measures be used through- Aegean, and gave only Athens the mint silver...
...Egyptian setback forced Athens to abandon her Peloponnesian campaign and concentrate all her resources on reversing the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean, to halt the disintegration of her hegemony in the Aegean...
Following the defeat, a large number of islands failed to contribute their annual allotments to Athens. However, by 450 B.C., the Athenians were able to restore much of their influence in the Aegean, setting the stage for their decision to transform the alliance into an empire...
Died. Dr. Karl Lehmann, 66, German-born U.S. archaeologist who spent 22 years digging in the marble-littered Aegean isle of Samothrace, turned up a host of notable finds, including the missing right hand of the Louvre's famed Winged Victory; of cancer; in Basel, Switzerland...