Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Assembly President Mangi Slim Family. Born Sept. 15, 1908, in Tunis, Mongi Slim (pronounced Monjee Sleem) is an improbable cross-breed of Mediterranean civilizations: Greek, Turkish and Arab. One great-grandfather, a Greek named Kafkalas, was captured as a boy by pirates, sold as a mameluke (white slave) to the Bey of Tunis, who educated him, freed him, made him his minister of defense. His paternal grandfather was an aristocratic Caid who ruled the wealthy province of Cape Bon. His mother was a member of the Beyrums, a noble Turkish family which had risen to prominence in Tunis, was famous...
...consistently tried to hide the fact by severe press censorship and high-handed rule. But many Turks wondered whether the death penalty was justified for this offense and for the grab bag of other charges raised against Menderes and his fellow defendants in court. Among the charges: inciting anti-Greek riots in 1955, threatening the life of former Turkish President Ismet Inonu, organizing a riot to destroy a newspaper, profiting from the sale of a dog received as a gift from the King of Afghanistan...
...Italy's tall, fair-haired Princess Maria Gabriella (whose passion for bullfighters and fast cars shocked Madrid society), Juan Carlos skipped his usual summer of water skiing on Lake Lausanne. Instead, he appeared as the guest of King Paul of Greece for a month of boating off the Greek Isle of Corfu. His shipmate: King Paul's eldest daughter, Sophie, a 22-year-old blonde known in Europe's tabloids as "The Princess of the Sad Eyes...
Rumors began to fly that Sophie was no longer melancholy. Last week in Athens, a 101-gun salute boomed out from Mount Lycabettus, and the Greek court made it official: Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, Prince of Asturias and Infante of Spain, would marry Princess Sophie...
...deep sheepskin rug, powdered the antique balustrades cut from the top of Marion Davies' beach castle in Santa Monica, drifted across the lanai, with its his-and-hers swimming pools (Nat's adorned with an antique Grecian female statue, R.J.'s with a Greek male). The result was almost too predictable; the house and the Wagners' marriage fell apart simultaneously...