Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, a U.S. military car driven by a U.S. airman struck two pedestrians, killing 66-year-old General Stefanos Sarafis, a member of Parliament and World War II guerrilla hero, and injuring his wife Marion. On orders from U.S. Ambassador George Allen, the airman was handed over immediately to Greek authorities, who charged him with negligent manslaughter, and said he had been drinking and speeding. Apprehensive lest there be a repetition of last fortnight's riots in Taipei, Greek authorities called out police to surround the U.S. embassy and the cathedral where General Sarafis' body lay in state...
Dawson is professor of Law at the University of Michigan, and was Chief of the Middle East Division of the Foreign Economic Administration. He served as Director of the Foreign Trade Administration for the Greek government...
Died. George Gilbert Aime Murray, 91, spare, brilliant Greek scholar and Oxford don (from 1908), eminent translator of Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Aristophanes. After the shock of losing many friends and students in World War I, Murray joined Lord David Cecil and Sir Norman Angell in urging a strong League of Nations, in 1946 became a joint president of Britain's United Nations Association. The precise scholar, who could also baffle friends with a parlor trick of taking off a sock without removing his shoe, once said that "only in peace is it possible...
...virtue of a series of revolutions and counterrevolutions within the 17th century Ottoman Empire, the descendants of bush-bearded Hussein ben AH, the son of a Greek renegade, claim by birth and title to be the "Possessors of the Kingdom of Tunis." In actual fact, since the French took over their kingdom in 1881. the Husseinite Beys of Tunisia have been possessors of little more than a fancy title and the perquisites that go with it-though the perks can be quite handsome. In 1943-when Mohammed al-Moncef showed troublesome signs of getting out of hand, the French dumped...
...Greek orphan will have the unique experience of having 297 foster mothers as the result of a project of the Radcliffe freshman class...