Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years later his parents were divorced, and his mother took him back to her home town, Grand Rapids, Mich. There she married Paint Manufacturer Gerald Rudolph Ford, who adopted her son and renamed him. For pocket money in high school, the young Ford waited on tables in a Greek restaurant. A strapping 6 ft. 197 Ibs. when he entered college, he played center on the University of Michigan's undefeated national-championship football teams of 1932 and 1933. Along the way he worked as a summer forest ranger. His job: to hold a gun on the bears while tourists...
More Raids. In the course of the week, other Israeli air raids were carried out on the smaller Syrian cities of Homs, Latakia and Tartus. Additional foreign casualties were inflicted at Latakia when bomb fragments hit the 1,480-ton Greek freighter Tsimentavron, which was anchored in the harbor, and two seamen were killed. At Tartus, the Soviet freighter Ilya Mechnikov, which was reportedly unloading equipment for Syria's new Euphates Dam, was badly damaged by an Israeli missile, and a Japanese vessel was also reported sunk. The Russians immediately accused Israel of "barbarous" attacks on non-military targets...
...loneliness but about resistance, prison, freedom, dreams gone awry. This is the music of Greece's romantic revolutionary Mikis Theodorakis. In Greece his songs and instrumentals account for up to half the popular records sold (all surreptitiously). In the U.S., his sound tracks for the films Zorba the Greek, Z and State of Siege are known to millions. The man himself-Marxist, former member of the Greek Parliament, self-described composer to the masses-is a less familiar figure. Part of the reason: over the years he has fr quently found himself in Greek prisons for his outspoken ways...
...Theodorakis has emerged from his Paris home-in-exile to make his first U.S. concert tour. It began two weeks ago in New York-outside Greece and Cyprus the largest Greek community in the world, with 400,000 Greek Americans -and by the end of the month will have taken him to 22 cities, including Chicago, the second largest. Last week found him at the Kennedy Center in Washington, B.C., backed by a seven-piece band and three singers, notably scarlet-voiced Greek Songstress Maria Farantouri...
...Paine. As a youthful product of music conservatories in Athens and Paris, Theodorakis, a lawyer's son, was accomplished enough to write a symphony that could pass as minor Shostakovich. In the years after World War II, he aligned himself with the Communist partisans fighting the Greek monarchy and drew his first jail term. He decided that his real medium was the laiki moussiki (serious pop) central to the everyday lives of the Greek working classes...