Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cyprus the British issued two casualty lists. The first showed a total of 32 British and French officers and men killed -in the Port Said fighting. The second listed 32 Britons and Cypriots killed in the same period-on Cyprus. Never since the terrorist EOKA, the Greek Cypriot underground, started its campaign of violence 18 months ago had so much blood been shed in so short a time...
...Biblical bonanza has a new claimant: 20th Century-Fox will epicram the New Testament into The Greatest Story Ever Told. To supervise this adaptation of the late Fulton Oursler's adaptation of the Gospels, no fewer than twelve religious advisers will be hired, including a Greek Orthodox, announced 20th Century's president, Greek Orthodox Spyros P. Skouras. And to fill the part of Jesus, a search is on for a handsome theological student who will promise to return to his studies after completing the movie assignment. Reported Variety: "Top thesps will be engaged to play the apostles...
...late King Carol II of Rumania, and onetime (1922-35) Queen of Greece; of a heart ailment, a month after she adopted the Marquis Marc de Savrat, her handsome, 33-year-old French equerry, gave him her family name of Hohenzollern; in Cannes, France. Elizabeth married the Greek Crown Prince in 1921, shared the throne with him when he became King George II of Greece (September 1922), fled to Rumania in exile when the late George was ousted after 15 months, rocked the Balkans by charging unfaithfulness and desertion, pouting, "I never wanted to be a queen," when she divorced...
...opposition, can be supported by Christian convictions." Some 240 of Cambridge's most distinguished scholars wrote a letter to the Times protesting Eden's intervention. More than 350 dons at Oxford filed a similar protest, but a rival group of 30, led by 90-year-old Greek Classicist Gilbert Murray, supported Eden...
...objects, early archaeologists burrowed recklessly into ancient ruins. Often they missed or destroyed the subtle hints and clues that tell modern diggers how ancient people lived. Professor Carl W. Blegen of the University of Cincinnati now tells how careful, new-style digging uncovered the apartment of a Greek queen of the Homeric Age, more than 3,000 years...