Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Following a life-long love of the sea, he has bought a 57-ft. ketch that he plans to sail on a year-long cruise with his wife Anita and a few friends, going to Bermuda, the Azores, through the Mediterranean, along the Italian coast and to the Greek Isles...
Other stories pointed up Le Monde's wider beat. Marshal Lin Piao, "the man who launched the little red book," was profiled. An anonymous report from Athens dissected the problems of the Greek junta: "The toughest rivals which the regime will have to face may come from within the military establishment itself-in spite of the elimination of several hundred officers and the promotion of many others...
...Erasmus [April 25], but I do not think you went all the way when you endeavored to explain the name of my great compatriot. Erasmus' name in fact was Geert Geertsz (Gerard, son of Gerard) and as the humanists liked to translate their names into Latin (and/or Greek), Erasmus used the fact that "Geert" in his time was a form of a verb which meant "to desire," "to long for" (Latin: desidero). You know, of course, that Melanchthon wrote an epitaph for Erasmus: "Eras mus omnia rodere solitus [You were a mouse that always gnawed at everything...
Burning Butts. In Athens, the Greek military junta was busily playing oneupmanship with its critics: in order to forestall token strikes threatened for May Day, the junta declared it a public holiday. It also sponsored a workers' rally in Salonika, complete with government-approved signs calling for a 40-hour week and "profits participation...
Married. Maria Atalanti Livanos, 27, U.S.-born daughter of the late millionaire Greek shipowner George M. Livanos; and Stephane A. Cattaui, 32, French-Egyptian investment banker, vice president and Eurooean representative of Clark, Dodge & Co. Inc.; he for the second time; in a Greek Orthodox ceremony; in Manhattan...