Word: aegean
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...From the Aegean island of Tenos, Greece's Lourdes, a sacred, jewel-encrusted ikon of the Virgin Mary, which is believed to work miracles, was sped by naval destroyer and limousine to the King's sickroom. Briefly Paul rallied...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who was in Greece to discuss trade matters with local officials. While the guests slept that night, the Christina, loaded with fresh peaches, black figs and pomegranates, and decorated from stem to stern with red roses and gladioli, weighed anchor and set sail through the Aegean for a visit to Istanbul. On hand to care for the party of twelve was a crew of 60 that included a dance band and two coiffeurs from Athens...
...there remained a good question as to why Il Corsaro was chosen in the first place. Except for his disastrously bad Alzira, it represents Verdi's single lapse from musicianship and inspiration, and the preposterous libretto, inspired by Byron's The Corsair-the story of an Aegean pirate whose ill-starred romance leads to murder and suicide-scarcely helps matters. The one pleasing aria and the single engaging duet could hardly be expected to mollify a fastidious audience. Even the most pious Verdi worshipers could not help applying to their hero the only couplet in Byron...
...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...