Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know what is happening because he sees it as an isolated problem of a few "trouble-makers"; his widest vision may grasp an idea of some sinister underground conspiracy. An uncanny international cooperation has formed at the LSE, with veterans of Alabama, the anti-apartheid movement, Pakistani politics, and Greek student strikes working easily with British students educated by the Aldermaston marches and left university politics. But the "conspiracy" is the result of a universal experience: the established authorities are making terrible mistakes...
...Greek newspapers have repeatedly written about me," said Georgakakis. "But as soon as TIME ran the story, everyone started showing an active interest. I hope I will come up to the expectations TIME has created...
Pepelasis saw the lawyer and offered him a demanding job in legal research. His assignment: to review the entire body of Greek legislation and unearth obsolete laws that are frustrating modern agricultural development. His salary: 7,000 drachmas ($233) a month. There were other offers, but this was the best. A day or two before TIME appeared Georgakakis actually had his first chance, thanks to Queen Mother Frederika, who had induced the Federation of Greek Industries to give him a job at 3,000 drachmas a month...
...perfectly within its rights when it issued itself 600,000 new shares of stock in the Société des Bains de Mer, thus guaranteeing control of the outfit that runs the famed Monte Carlo Casino and 33% of the principality's real estate. The big loser: Greek Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis, 60, who hitherto controlled the Société with 500,000 shares. Onassis' next move may well be to offer his shares to Rainier, who is bound by law to buy them. If Onassis does sell out, the Prince will have the problem...
...never lets the celebration sink into earthiness. The movie's like a Greek myth where the protagonists are not garden-variety nymphs--they're Olympic deities. The director of photography, Claude Renoir, maintains the splendor. When Miss Fonda and McEnery make love within glass walls, he catches their undulating yellow reflection. When they make love in a grotto, he touches the French greenery with junglelike lushness. He creates out of Vadim's always bizarre locations (waterfall, soccer match, duck pond, crumbling villa, go-go costume party) a continuous paradise. The movie seems all grass and gold...