Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When E.O.K.A., the Greek Cypriots' underground, recently offered to call off its campaign of terrorism, Governor Sir John Harding replied by calling for what amounted to unconditional surrender. The assassins were on the run, he said, and the only reason E.O.K.A. had called a truce was "to recover from the hard knocks it has taken in recent months." Now that the terror is back on again, British government officials admit that E.O.K.A. is really still powerful, and will take some handling...
...raucous weeks, Italy's top TV show, Lascia o Raddoppia (Double or Quits'), which is frankly modeled after the $64,000 Question, rocked the nation. Tempest in the TV pot was balloon-bosomed Maria Luisa Garoppa, 23, a tobacco shopkeeper from northern Italy whose knowledge of Greek drama is only surpassed by her unusual measurements...
...sooner had Maria-dressed in a red lace decollete sheath-given correct answers to eight questions on Greek tragedy (thus qualifying for 640,000 lire, or $1,024) than thousands of televiewers and an excitable press began complaining of her "exuberant body." Harried program directors corralled Italy's top couturiers in an effort to camouflage Maria, who complained: "Can I help it if I'm not built like a telephone pole...
...Greek Cypriots were enraged. Said the mayor of Nicosia: "E.O.K.A. was not defeated. This was not what we expected." From Athens Greek opposition leader George Papandreou heatedly declaimed: "The attitude of the British government and Executioner Harding leaves only one answer, an implacable fight for freedom." Disdainfully, E.O.K.A.'s "Dighenis the Leader" (whom the British identify as former Greek army Colonel George Grivas) echoed the classic answer that Leonidas the Spartan reportedly made to Xerxes and his Persian hordes at Thermopylae: "Molon lave" ("Come...
...Juliana might abdicate, it was announced that the heir presumptive, Princess Beatrix, 18, would begin studies this term at Leiden University, where her mother won an honorary doctorate in literature and philosophy at 21. These matters settled, Juliana and Bernhard flew off to Corfu for a holiday with the Greek royal family. Their loyal subjects (who have been told very little of all that has gone on) were assured by an Amsterdam newspaper that for Juliana and Bernhard "this interlude in the land of classical harmony and joy of living" would mark "the equally harmonious conclusion of a difficult period...