Word: crete
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human emotions so crucial to Zorba. His name is Herschel Bernardi and I can't get him out of my mind. For Zorba, every minute of life must be lived as if death were around the corner, with no time to be wasted. Raising his eyes to the Crete sky, spreading open his arms, and kicking out his feet as if he could surely ascend to heaven if he worked enough at it, Bernardi makes not only a stunning Zorba but a majestic spectacle of human will...
Thompson reasons this way: Prime Minister Churchill had presided over a long string of military disasters. By August 1942, Singapore had fallen, Crete was gone, and the British were being hit hard everywhere. The nation desperately needed a great victory and a greater hero. With the sure hand of a master propagandist, says Thompson, Churchill removed the able but colorless General Claude Auchinleck as commander of the Eighth Army in North Africa and put the theatrical Monty in his place. Churchill's press officers set out to obliterate the fact that the Eighth Army had already won one battle...
...participated in many other research projects, including a survey of heart disease in Crete...
...will play). Kafatos, a 28-year-old Greek citizen, has already published a dozen scientific communications which have received international attention. The editors of Nature cited his scientific promise and the crucial nature of his work in a rare burst of praise in the May, 1967, issue. Born in Crete, he came to America immediately after high school and enrolled at Cornell University. He finished the four year program in three years, graduating first in a class of 100 with high honors in Zoology...
Died. Major General Sir Robert Laycock, 60, debonair, dashing leader of England's World War II commandos; of a heart attack; in Wiseton, England. The storybook image of a daring British commando, the tall, blue-eyed Laycock led his raiders through Crete, Syria, Sicily and Salerno, executed his boldest raid in 1941, when he landed on the Libyan coast, tried to kidnap Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, lost 48 of his 50-man party, and escaped across the desert, living for six weeks on little else but berries and rain water...