Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first known hydrofoil was invented some 60 years ago by Enrico Forlanini) has ferry service across the Strait of Messina, also on the Gulf of Naples and Lago di Garda. Hydrofoils are fairly common in the Soviet Union. Others skim along the Riviera and between several islands of the Aegean. Three hydrofoils ferry tourists on the Nile between Aswan and Abu Simbel...
Jason and the Argonauts. The reflecting surface of the fish pond in Zeus's palace on Mount Olympus is a sort of giant-screen TV that brings in news shows from all over the Aegean. Zeus and Hera, who are just folks, watch it so much that they must surely have to keep a six-pack of nectar and a frozen ambrosia dinner close at hand. But in stead of astronauts they see Argonauts -a bearded body builder named Jason (Todd Armstrong) and his adventure-prone shipmates aboard the Argo...
...began to rise high above the wine-dark Aegean Sea, the twelve bells of Great Lavra monastery on Mount Athos pealed out a welcome. In the rock-strewn bay at the foot of the 500-ft. promontory on which Great Lavra stands, a procession of five ships unloaded 1,000 visitors. Jeeps and trucks carried the pilgrims,*who were led by King Paul of Greece, up the steep road to the monastery yard. The bells of other monasteries joined those of Great Lavra in a tolling, rhythmic counterpoint to the chanting of the monks...
...Peak of God." A green, mountainous finger pointed eastward into Homer's Aegean, the Athos peninsula was thought sacred long before Jesus came on earth. Aeschylus refers to Athos as "the peak of God," and Christians quite happily modified the belief in their own way. According to one legend, a ship carrying the Virgin Mary to Cyprus was blown to Athos by a storm. When she arrived, the pagan idols spoke to the inhabitants, ordering them to pay homage to the Mother of God, who baptized them, and claimed the mountain as a gift from...
...manual on how to turn a drowsy little Greek island into the Catskills of the charter-flight set. Con Man Robert Preston and his pal Tony Randall seed the waters around the island with phony erotic antiques to revive a legend that the place used to be an old Aegean orgy ground. With the innocent help of Georgia Moll, the trick works, and soon the island is swinging with so many foreign tourists in native costume that it resembles United Nations Day at a free-love camp. Everybody is holding hands and smooching, and, lest the point be lost, there...