Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modifications were all designed to temper Greek objections to any plan that might draw Turkey into governing the island, or lead to an eventual partitioning of the island between Turk and Greek Cypriots. In revising his plan, Macmillan 1) deferred his proposal for dual citizenship for Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots; 2) established separate municipal councils and houses of representatives for Greek and Turkish Cypriots, but hoped that in the future some all-in-one legislature would be formed; 3) decided that delegates from Greece and Turkey would be invited to serve as "advisers" to the British Governor instead...
Britain's changes were received with satisfaction in Turkey, whose major interest in Cyprus is to make sure that the island never falls into Greek hands. But . in Athens, the gloom was heavy. To Premier Constantine Karamanlis, as to most Greeks. Macmillan's modified plan seemed the beginning of partition. Fearing a renewal of bombings and murder, Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot sent a personal message to Archbishop Makarios in Athens: "If this chance is not at once seized, I can foresee nothing but continuing misery for Cyprus." At week's end Makarios flatly rejected the Macmillan...
...Gauguin's Still Life with Apples, bought at auction last year by Greek Shipping Magnate Basil Peter Goulandris for the highest known price ($297,000) ever paid for a modern oil (TIME, June 24, 1957). ¶ Most of the little-seen Stephen C. Clark collection, including Van Gogh's Cafe de Nuit, El Greco's Saint Andrew, Rembrandt's Praying Pilgrim, Cezanne's Card Players...
Last week the German press lifted the well-kept secret of the Hanseatic's financial backers, revealed that the Hamburg-Atlantic Line is 60% owned by Greek Shipper Nicos Vernicos-Eugenides, president of Home Lines, one of the world's biggest transatlantic carriers, and 40% owned by wealthy German Cigarette Maker Philipp F. Reemtsma. Vernicos and Reemtsma put up $2,400,000 of their own money, borrowed the rest from German banks, got the big Hamburg-American Line (which has 41 freighters, one passenger ship) to manage the Hanseatic. In a poll of transatlantic traffic, they discovered...
Again the novel's narrator is Darley, a seedy, itinerant Irish schoolteacher. Again the plot concerns his sexual and soulful involvements with Justine, a feline Egyptian Jewess; Nessim, her millionaire husband; Melissa, a tubercular Greek dancer. There is also an assortment of other exotics, who seem to have crawled from beneath a blistered and immemorial stone of Alexandria-Scobie, the transvestite policeman; Toto de Brunei, who dies with a hatpin rammed through his brain; Capodistria, the goatish sybarite; hare-lipped Narouz, who carries a severed head in his saddlebag; Pursewarden, who has discovered "the uselessness of having opinions...