Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first flew to Greece to demand the release of two Palestinians who were in prison there awaiting trial for their role in an attack at the Athens airport last August in which four people had been killed. As soon as the 737 landed at Athens, the skyjackers announced to Greek authorities that they had already murdered four of their hostages. Unless their demands were met, they said, they would take off again and crash the plane into the heart of Athens. They had actually murdered one hostage and wounded another, but the rest of their boast turned...
Born more or less 50 years ago (he won't tell exactly when) in Garden City, N.Y., of Greek immigrant parents, Savalas knows from experience those mean streets he now uses for locations (some of the show is also shot in Los Angeles). He graduated from a noisy family whose fortunes fluctuated from wealth in the tobacco business to bankruptcy in the Depression and back to affluence in the bakery business. He earned a degree from Columbia University in psychology, an experience that permanently turned him off the subject...
Meanwhile, Savalas is giving a pretty good imitation of enjoying life. He storms without a fluff through grueling six-day weeks of shooting, barely stepping out of character to slip off the set and make phone calls to his bookie, and slurps ice cream happily, surrounded by Greek crew members. "Forget the fame, forget the money; that's nonsense. You get your friends jobs...
Kaufmann said that a possible shortage of assistant professors could be solved by encouraging tenured Faculty in less hard-pressed departments to teach courses in other areas. He cited John Finley '28, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, as an example. Finley teaches the popular course Humanities 3, "The Rise of the Greek Classics...
...students denounced the economic policies of the junta which had led to the revaluation of the drachma, 30% inflation in basic foodstuffs, and the use of the Greek government's much needed stores of petroleum for the Athens-based American Sixth Fleet...