Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excellent new 105-mm. howitzers with a range of 6.2 miles. A later deal for three LST-type landing ships was blocked by U.S. pressure. But clandestine shipments continue through Naples of arms from other nations-labeled "motors" and "used parts." As late as three weeks ago, a Greek Line freighter left Naples with Cuban-bought arms falsely manifested to Haiti...
...Mail, which reckoned that Liz had contracted exotic Malta fever-a malady afflicting humans through goat's milk-while on a vacation in the Greek Islands. If that were so, it was surely the most costly Malta milk in cinematic history...
Significant Trivia. Dr. Fisher will arrive in Rome about Dec. 1, after a ten-day trip that will include visits to Greek Orthodox Patriarch Benediktos in Jerusalem and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras in Istanbul. The Archbishop of Canterbury plans to stay at Rome's stately Villa della Camilluccia, residence of Britain's Minister to the Holy See. To avoid any awkward moments, the Pope is expected to receive the Archbishop standing, instead of with the customary seated extension of his ring to be kissed. Except for an interpreter, the two bishops will be alone. What they talk about...
...story the way John Huston did in his hilarious Beat the Devil but unfortunately, Donen's dog turns out to be all bark and no bite. The hero (Brynner) 'is a big-time hood deported from the U.S. to his native Greece and confined by the Greek government to a small Aegean island. The story evolves around his attempt to get back in the money by relieving an exiled king Noel Coward) of his million-dollar crown. Revolving ever more tediously, it goes down the drain in a clutter of words-Package is perhaps the year...
Died. Dimitri Mitropoulos, 64, virtuoso conductor and pianist who followed a musical calling with mystical fervor; of a heart attack; in La Scala Opera House, Milan. Athens-born of ecclesiastical lineage, Greek Orthodox Mitropoulos gave himself to music with the dedication of a monk (which he once intended to be), lived frugally, gave away his money to students as his hero St. Francis of Assisi did, became an apostle of modern composers. On the podium he danced, shook his fringed pate, conducting without a score from an awesome memory. Off the podium he read philosophy, the Greek dramatists...