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...give moviegoers the heebie-jeebies. It calls up unnerving images. Seven stray cats finding their way home to a haunted castle. Donald Duck meeting Frankenstein. Hordes of psychotic chipmunks slaughtering each other for nuts. But The Moon-Spinners, filmed in picture-book color on the island of Crete, turns out to be daft and breezy escapism assigned to a cast of flesh-and-blood actors headed by Hayley Mills. Given a plot that might fit snugly into the Nancy Drew mystery series, Hayley plays it with the knowing air of a junior-miss James Bond...
...Greece is at a great disadvantage. Not only are there 30 million Turks to 8,500,000 Greeks, but geography also favors Turkey. Cyprus lies only 40 miles off Turkey's coast within easy reach of its planes and ships, while the nearest Greek air base is on Crete, 450 miles from Cyprus. As NATO partners, both armies are using U.S. equipment, but Turkey has far more planes, tanks and other weaponry than does Greece. The Greek navy is more of a match for Turkey, but it could not move to the aid of Cyprus without outrunning...
With Spy sure to earn at least $200,000, Cornwell recently quit as a British consul in Hamburg and moved self, wife and three growing sons to Crete, where the British income tax does not reach. There, in a white stucco house within 30 yards of the sea, he is working over the final draft of his next book...
...married his youthful German cousin, Princess Frederika of Hanover, 16 years his junior, in an elaborate royal wedding in Athens. But royal housekeeping lasted only until the German Wehrmacht blasted into Greece in 1941. With his wife and two small children, Princess Sophie and Prince Constantine, Paul fled to Crete, then to Cairo, and finally to South Africa, where his third child, Princess Irene, was born...
...could say. Only the White House was able to keep tabs with a special microwave hookup. Culture-conscious Jackie was charting her own Odyssey, over to Lesbos for a look at the island where the poet Sappho was supposed to have thrown herself into the sea. Then on to Crete for a session with Sister Lee Radziwill, clambering around labyrinthian Minoan ruins. The last stop was at Delphi, where, intent on the guide's words, she stumbled into a pothole. The First Lady quickly scrambled up and went on for a look at the site of the omniscient Oracle...