Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possibly be," says Heyman. "We don't make up any dialogue." The actors speak their lines verbatim from the Bible, using the languages their characters would have used, though the producers have taken some liberties. Adam and Eve mouth words silently; Abraham speaks Hebrew; Luke, Greek. The voice-over is a word-for-word reading of the Bible in English by such narrators as Alexander Scourby and Orson Welles. The sound track is available in three versions: King James, Revised Standard and New American...
...just sing for my own amazement," says George Savalas, 46, curly-haired kid brother of TV's Telly Savalas, 52. George, who usually plays harried Detective Sergeant Stavros on the Kojak series, has been playing to New York nightclub audiences lately -all thanks to an album of Greek folk tunes that he recorded last April. Judging from Savalas' enthusiasm after one performance, he may have brighter prospects as a cafe crooner than a TV cop. Says he: "I was walking four feet off the ground and singing like a cannon." A cannon? "Like a cannon and a bird...
...time the Sismik reached the Aegean, the whole 17,500-man Greek navy-seven submarines, 15 destroyers and 25 patrol boats-was on alert. Its main points of concern were the islands of Lemnos, Lesbos, Chios and Rhodes, all within 20 miles of the Turkish coast. During her first days in the Aegean, the Sismik confined herself to what were clearly Turkish waters, but then she began taking soundings off Lemnos. The Greek destroyer Lightning was ordered to close in on the Sismik. Its instructions: "Hold your fire, but be prepared for any eventuality." At the same time, however, fresh...
...Athens, top Greek military commanders advised Premier Constantine Caramanlis to sink the Sismik. Socialist Party Leader Andreas Papandreou urged the same course. "Treat the Sismik as if she were Turkish troops on Greek land," he said...
...heard the arguments of both sides, without coming to a decision, he appealed to the International Court of Justice at The Hague for a quick ruling. He also called for a conference of the heads of state of all Balkan nations. And as a final touch, he sent a Greek oil-exploration vessel, the 1,300-ton Nautilus, out on its own survey of the Aegean...