Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dunn's specialty is medieval literature of Scotland and Ireland, but his academic capacities are enormous and his interests awesome. At Ontario's MacMasters College, he majored in and English with a Latin-Greek option, but he also managed a full program of chemistry courses. "I was interested in the courses we used to call 'radio-active', which, as you know, have become rather important," Dunn says...
Standing alone on the Times editorial page was Columnist Cyrus L. Sulzberger. He took a firm stand against "flabbiness in Viet Nam" and reminded all concerned that the U.S. "inherited the position of global superpower in 1945 and cannot escape its obligations." He recalled that "the 1947 Greek commitment under the Truman Doctrine was also originally unpopular. Many naive Americans and their newspapers then preferred the Communist rebels to the Athens government." And in the tone of a man delivering an urgent warning to his friends, he wrote: "If we crawl out of Viet Nam now, it is obvious that...
...past 28 years, Sulzberger, 53, has lived overseas. While reporting from Greece in 1939 he met a Greek girl named Marina whom he later married in Beirut. In 1944 he was made chief of the Times's foreign correspondents, a post that he held until he became a roving columnist in 1954. When not on the road, he makes his base in the New York Times Paris office, where the walls of his suite are almost totally covered with autographed pictures of the world's political leaders, most of whom he knows quite well...
...grapes, fish and ships. More recently, the country has tried hard to develop modern industry, has more than tripled industrial exports to $25 million in the past five years. All along, a valuable asset lay hidden: bauxite, the basic raw material from which aluminum is made. Now a French-Greek-American combine called Aluminum of Greece has built the country's largest plant, a $135 million factory on the Bay of Antikyra in the shadow of Mount Parnassus. The plant not only brings Greece a whole new industry, aluminum, but by itself will double again the country...
Patience of Penelope. The combine is led by France's biggest aluminum maker, Pechiney, but substantial minority interests are held by Shipping Magnate Stavros Niarchos (21%), the U.S.'s Reynolds Metals (17%) and the Greek government (12%). Pechiney put up half the capital, has nine men on the 18-member board of directors, among them its own director-general, Pierre Jouven, who is chairman of the new company. What drew Pechiney to Greece, aside from the plentiful bauxite? Cheap labor, one of the Mediterranean's deepest harbors at Antikyra, and the Greek government's promise...