Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short, checked polo coat and matching shorts, or with a pony-skin raincoat. If she would rather be Tom Sawyer, Chester Weinberg has just the thing: avocado green velvet overalls that come to midcalf, and are topped by a lace-trimmed blouse. With George Stavropoulos, she can play the Greek goddess in classical floor-length gowns trailing yards of filmy chiffon...
Zorba the Greek was a splendid hero, but when he tried his hand at lignite mining he was a disaster. That's the way economic things go in Greece, a country that has an annual per-capita G.N.P. of only $530 and ranks as one of Europe's least-developed areas. Hoping to change that situation at long last, the Greek government has now turned to a more modern type of hero for a helping hand: California's versatile Litton Industries...
...developing mines and industry so as to increase employment by 72%. In the western Peloponnesus, Litton proposes that Greece increase the number of hotel beds from 1,000 to 50,000, build three new airports, develop five industrial centers and five harbors, and transform Olympia into some sort of Greek Disneyland...
Profitable for Both. Greek leaders admitted that, left on their own, they just could not do the job. But it took a military coup to end more than two years of negotiations and political bickering over the terms of the contract. "We're not just altruistic businessmen," says a Litton executive. "We hope to make it profitable for them and for us. If we are successful, it will improve the standard of living in Greece, it will bring us more income, and in the end it will mean more business...
...here presents sparkling and masterful piano solos that nicely complement the sophisticated slurrings of the horns in A Taste of Honey, What Now My Love and Tijuana Taxi. His technique is at its best as he evokes the swirl of a jazz dance in the theme from Zorba the Greek, or lays out a burning, soulful line on The Work Song...