Word: corfu
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...Greece, waves of charter planes are landing all day long at Crete, Rhodes and Corfu, depositing a sizable proportion of the country's estimated 1.5 million visiting fun seekers this summer. Package tours have changed some of the islands from contemplative hideaways into vacation factories. Water pollution is less visible but still dangerous, and dermatologists in Athens are reaping a rich harvest from treating skin diseases caught by bathers...
Italian Actress Marilu Tolo took a crash course in English in Los Angeles and( is now speaking it-with brio-in a Greek drama on the island of Corfu. Tolo is on the set of The Greek Tycoon, the saga of a shipping magnate (Anthony Quinn) who chucks his mezzo-soprano mistress (Tolo) in order to marry the widow of an assassinated U.S. President (Jacqueline Bisset). All fantasy, of course. Tolo (pronounced Taw-lo) described her part as that of "a famous opera singer, a tempestuous, explosive character" who is "not Maria Callas." If there is any resemblance...
Foreign black star listings include seven fields in Colombia; three in Australia; Rhodes and Corfu in Greece; and eleven others, including Iran's huge airport at Tehran...
Last week, after a two-month hiatus, the mild-mannered accountant returned to France from the Greek island of Corfu-tanned, newly bearded and quite penniless. Locked up in Paris' La Santé prison, he faces trial in an affair that has become as labyrinthine as the maze of catacombs that lies under the jail...
...Elefsis greatly complicates Turner's task. Because Turkey has also been angered by U.S. policy on Cyprus, no ships of the Sixth Fleet have been able to drop anchor in Istanbul or Izmir since February. As for Greece, the last destroyer landing party to go ashore on Corfu was nearly lynched by hysterical Greek islanders. Even in Athens, American sailors' wives and children from Elefsis have been stoned...