Word: aegean
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...appointment of an acting Quincy House Master for next year is expected President Pusey returns from his Far Eastern tour. Bullitt will spend the writing in England and skin-diving in the Aegean...
...Starting from Troy in 1932, Professor . John L. Caskey of the University of Cincinnati has dug his way along the fabled trade routes of the Aegean Sea. Last summer he stopped at the island of Kea, reckoning that its wind-sheltered harbor offered a natural anchorage for ancient mariners. Caskey was right. This summer, on Kea's St. Irene peninsula, he found a Mycenean settlement dating back 3,500 years, complete with temple, palace, private homes with inside plumbing, and a municipal sewer system. Scattered through the town were fragments of delicate Cretan pottery. The settlement was probably destroyed...
...military exercise of the those-poor-devils-haven't-got-a-chance school, is the most enjoyable consignment of baloney in months. The mission that cannot be pulled off is the spiking of two enormous German guns before a lost British battalion can be evacuated from an Aegean island. The man who can pull it off is Gregory Peck. "Why me?" asks Peck, his deer's eyes regarding his gruff, lovable old commander (James Robertson Justice) with reproach. "Well," the G.L.O.C. answers reasonably, "you speak German like a German, Greek like a Greek, and before...
...newspaper. Alarmed, she cabled the White House, was assured that there was no need for her to cut her trip short and come home. So Jackie stayed on vacation. Clad in a modish dark blue bathing suit and a bright blue cap, she swam and water-skied in the Aegean Sea, while units of the Royal Hellenic Navy kept unwelcome small craft at bay. As her vacation idyl ended, Jackie tooled through the countryside in a Mercedes with young Crown Prince Constantine at the wheel. On her return to Washington, she found her husband waiting for her, sitting...
...weight regulator on the man's Exercycle. What's worse, charming rakehell that he is (though never as arch, mocking or sphinxlike as Cyril Ritchard was onstage), he tries to freeze Tab out and lure his daughter away with promised trips to Venice, Positano and the Aegean Isle where Rupert Brooke is buried. At one painful moment, father and daughter, after a gay, French-talking night on the town, even do the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet...