Word: gargaliani
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Whatever detractors the Vice President may have in the U.S., there is a tiny corner of the earth where Spiro Agnew can do no wrong-the Greek town of Gargaliani. Agnew's father emigrated from there to America 72 years ago, changing his name from Anagnostopoulos and becoming a U.S. citizen. As a first-generation native American, Spiro never spoke his father's native tongue (his mother was American) and is more attuned to Lawrence Welk than to the bouzouki. But in Gargaliani, blood, not tongue, is what matters: the Vice President is revered as a local...
...residents of Gargaliani, Spiro Agnew is one of their own. His portrait hangs in a place of honor in the town hall, larger than that of Greece's Prime Minister or of the exiled King Constantine. Acting Mayor Nicholas Horaites produces with a flourish copies of congratulatory notes sent by the town council to Agnew-each cable misspelling his name in a different...
Andreas recalls that "Spiro's grandfather was rich by Gargaliani standards." He was a notary public, which carried legal duties and status in 19th century Greece. "But during the Balkan Wars of 1912-13," recalls Andreas, "there was a financial crisis." Without a trace of self-pity, Andreas explains that "though the family was financially broken, our pride and honor kept us from making crooked deals. Therefore we are poor...
...fame. "Now he has a name." says his father, "a dream to live up to." Democritas is a high school senior and has ambitions to be an accountant. He hopes to win the $1,000 scholarship that Agnew established in his grandfather's memory for the youth of Gargaliani...
...course, the most pressing question in Gargaliani-other than the outcome of the olive harvest-is when Spiro will come home. He has promised in letters to Andreas to visit the town, but the townspeople are beginning to wonder, in the shrewd fashion of peasants, why he waits so long. The delicacies of international politics that must concern their American cousin-the presence of a military junta in Athens, the absence of a constitutional Parliament-are not easily explained to the good people of sunny Gargaliani...
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