Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...status quo. Now, after changing to mufti in order to run as civilians for office in the elections provided for in the new constitution, the ex-colonels' attitudes appear more activist. They seem not only eager to suppress leftists but also to break the power of the Greek Establishment. Under the new constitution, the monarch will no longer have power to appoint and dismiss Premiers or to promote and assign generals. He will, in fact, have none of the power that made it possible for the Greek throne to create its own mini-aristocracy of loyal retainers...
Growing Awareness. Displaying new self-confidence, the ex-colonels allowed the Greek press to print the King's statement*They were feeling good because their fears about being isolated from their NATO allies have proved to be ill-founded. Also, the latest evidence of their firm control of the country has caused reappraisals of the new Greek situation in many foreign capitals. Though no nation has recognized the new regime, most diplomats feel that recognition is not necessary anyhow, since the government has maintained at least a vestige of legitimacy by appointing a general and temporary regent and retaining...
...they did, Helen Vlachos, the defiant Athens conservative columnist and publisher who closed her papers rather than submit to junta censorship, dyed her hair, evaded the guards that kept her under house arrest, and escaped to London, saying: "I felt I could be more useful to the Greek cause abroad...
...affiliates-150,000 people-are equal to the working population of Vermont. Its 750,000 shareholders outnumber the population of Hawaii. Jersey's tanker fleet, including 126 ships sailing under 14 flags, with 19 new supertankers abuilding of mostly 240,000 tons apiece, is bigger than the Greek navy. Jersey's 65,000 service stations, bearing such names as Esso, Enco and Humble (the New Jersey company's exclusive right to the Esso name is presently being fought out in Federal courts), are scattered everywhere around the world, from U.S. turnpikes to the African veld...
...first special Oscar (for good works), had already been honored with citations from the Greek War Relief Committee, Bundles for Britain, the Canadian Victory Loan Drive and President Roosevelt. During World War II, he traveled more than a million miles to deliver his smiles...