Word: crete
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...gradual diffusion of culture from the advanced Near East to barbarian Europe. There were a few puzzling exceptions: Stone Age tombs in Brittany, for example, were found to date back to at least 3000 B.C. Yet the oldest comparable tombs in the eastern Mediterranean-built by the Minoans on Crete -were known indirectly from actual historical records to date from only 2500 B.C. But except for a few iconoclastic prehistorians like Britain's Colin Renfrew of Sheffield University, most archaeologists remained thoroughly convinced "diffusionists." If a few prehistoric European monuments or artifacts happened to show unusual antiquity, they contended...
...screws of some 2,000 merchantmen on any day distort sound. The watch is most intense at six main "choke points," or "ticket gates," as Admiral Kidd calls them, through which maneuvering submarines must pass. These are Gibraltar, the sea south of Sardinia and Sicily, and the areas between Crete and Greece, Crete and North Africa, and Crete and Turkey. Both sides keep watch on the choke points. At the same time, surface ships frequently shadow one another. Cruising aboard the Roosevelt recently, TIME Correspondent John Shaw was startled to come on deck one morning to find that during...
...archaeological fingerprinting, Aström and a friend, Sven Eriksson, chief of the Swedish police's fingerprint department, collected some 200 impressions from ancient pottery found in Greece and Cyprus. The Mycenaean fingerprints had a distribution of 20% arches, 65% loops, 15% whorls, while those from Minoan Crete, a civilization some 1,000 years older, show a contrasting distribution of 4%, 42%, 54%. Their sampling was admittedly too small to suggest any major answer to perennial disputes. "My purpose," Aström explained, "is to maintain that fingerprints can be used in defining a population or a race...
...intelligence services on the night of the coup. That's the third man. These were three men that were obviously members of the CIA network. The fourth one also is very interesting. He is Brigadier Hadjipetrou. Now Brigadier Hadjipetrou was in charge of the U.S. NATO missile base in Crete, the military officer most trusted by the U.S. military establishment. He's the fourth man. Today this is the man in charge of the Greek intelligence services-the missile man. And he's very intelligent by the way, and a very dangerous man. The fifth man, Pattakos, I say about...
Number three is the presence of the Sixth Fleet that morning south of Crete-a very meaningful thing. The fourth thing is something that you can dig up yourselves for details. Marquis Child has reported long ago on a meeting of the Security Council, or a subcommittee of the Security Council, under W. W. Rostow's chairmanship. And Marquis Child has written this, and then he has confirmed it in private conversation with me much later. They concluded that Papandreou-the Center Union would win the elections in '67. They concluded furthermore at that meeting that this was against...