Word: corfu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Birds, Beasts and Relatives, the just published result, is neither sequel nor second volume. It is the very same book, except that all the anecdotes and incidents are different. Durrell's five boyhood years on the Greek island of Corfu are recalled with the same sense of a sun-drenched idylotry as before. The Durrell mythology is broadened to include the story of how a foul-mouthed old sea captain proposed to Durrell's mother. One learns of "Gerry's" visit to Corfu's countess, a dotty and rotund old party who forced him to share...
...last two years." Besides, the King of the Hellenes had the satisfaction of presenting the winner's silver cup to a countryman, George Andreadis. Later, Constantine exchanged his striped boating shirt and sneakers for a more formal outfit, and rushed back to the royal summer home on Corfu to help the royal family celebrate the 20th birthday of his wife, Queen Anne-Marie. His birthday present? "A state secret," said the King...
What makes the Club Méditerranée a success is its prices, usually less than a traveler on his own would spend on air fare alone. After paying annual $3 dues, a club member can, for instance, go and spend two weeks on the Greek island of Corfu for $210, which is $70 less than the regular round-trip tourist air fare from Paris (an off-season third week is thrown in free). Two weeks at the Djerba, Tunisia, village costs $200. Three weeks in Tahiti costs $1,120-or $660 less than the economy air fare from...
...Queen Anne-Marie's 19th birthday, and King Constantine, 25, celebrated it with her and seven-week-old Princess Alexia at his rambling hilltop villa on the western island of Corfu. Then he had to leave the party and fly back to his Athens palace for yet another attempt to resolve the seven-week-old parliamentary crisis...
While Constantine shuttled anxiously between Athens and his summer palace on Corfu, Premier Novas announced that Parliament would be asked to give his government a vote of confidence next week after a five-day debate. His ministers huddled with leaders of other parties to line up support, and Novas himself added that he would be only too delighted to "negotiate with anyone in the Center Union either for a new government formation or a broadening of the present...