Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unique part of Britannica 3 (estimated price: $550) is the Propaedia, a one-volume "outline of the whole of human knowledge" that serves as a framework and guide for the material in the other 29 volumes. The concept of the Propaedia stems from the Greek words that constitute the term encyclopaedia: the whole circle (or complete system) of learning. Adler describes the content of the Propaedia as a "circle of learning" that is divided, pie-like, into ten major segments: matter and energy, the earth, life on earth, human life, human society, art, technology, religion, the history of mankind...
...LEON EISENBERG, professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School, doesn't immediately stand out as the sort of person who gives impassioned speeches at rallies in solidarity with Greek demonstrators. Fiftyish, distinguished in his profession, chief of the psychiatry department at Massachusetts General Hospital, he seems perfectly comfortable in his book-lined office. But there he was last November, talking to 150 students gathered in the Science Center to denounce what Greek police--with American tanks--were doing to anti-government demonstrators, telling about the defendant in a political trial in Athens...
...couple of years later, Eisenberg met a Greek pediatrician named Stefanos Pandelakis. "A first-rate human being," Eisenberg says now, "caring, working on behalf of human beings, working on a project of caring for abandoned and orphaned children in Athens, but I really had no idea at the time he'd have the courage to do what he did." With Anastassios P. Minis, a retired air force colonel who'd been wounded and decorated several times in the Greek Resistance during World War II and then flying air raids against communist insurgents afterwards, Pandelakis planted about 20 home-made bombs...
...Butler Aviation official at Palm Beach International Airport. The short, gray-haired man in the blue sports outfit had just stepped off a silver-gray and blue Olympic Airways Learjet, which had stopped for refueling on a flight from Acapulco, Mexico, to New York. But it seems that Greek Oil Tanker Tycoon Aristotle Onassis, 67, had failed at a simple piece of domestic scheduling: his Shell Oil credit card was out of date, and Ari had no charge account with Butler. So while he coped with the necessary paper work to have his card renewed, Wife Jacqueline ordered up bacon...
...point spread is a fine, intuitive art practiced by an elite group of Las Vegas odds makers. Though Martin, 54, has officially retired from the Churchill Downs Sports Book, he remains the chief prophet of the establishment known as "the Church." More-publicized experts, such as Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, have been known to check their picks against Martin's. "There's nothing mysterious about setting the line," Martin insists. During the regular season, when spreads are selected for the 13 games each weekend, Martin watches games on TV, consults the U.P.I, sports wire at Churchill Downs...