Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offered a pleasant, if hectic, change of pace. A quick phone call to Rome sent Bureau Chief Jim Bell flying off to Athens. There, with the help of our stringer Mario Modiano, Bell chartered the only plane at the airport that was not controlled by either Onassis or the Greek government. He was taken for a look at Onassis' private island of Skorpios, and he is still frightened. "The pilot passed so low over the harbor," says Bell, "that I could see the tattoos on sailors' arms...
...cypress grove above the harbor, workmen labored long and lovingly on the task of refurbishing the tiny, neoclassic Chapel of Panayitsa (the Little Virgin). The centuries-old ritual was prescribed by Greek Orthodox tradition. The wedding ceremony called for the couple to walk around the altar three times; bride and groom traditionally try to be the first to step on the other's feet (the winner is then able to claim supremacy in the household). Man and wife are crowned with wreaths and drink from a cup of wine in order to symbolize the "harmony of soul and bodies." Everything...
Reaction in the U.S. and abroad ranged from dismay to a kind of shocked ribaldry. JACKIE, HOW COULD YOU? headlined Stockholm's Expressen. "Nixon has a Greek running mate," cracked Bob Hope, "and now everyone wants one." Said a former Kennedy aide: "She's gone from Prince Charming to Caliban." In a more sober vein, French Political Commentator André Fontaine wrote in Le Monde: "Jackie, whose staunch courage during John's funeral made such an impression, now chooses to shock by marrying a man who could be her father and whose career contradicts?rather strongly, to say the least?...
...worth vastly enhanced by wartime earnings, Onassis in 1946 married the younger daughter of Stavros Livanos, then one of the most powerful of the Greek shipping magnates. (Another Livanos daughter subsequently married and divorced Niarchos, now 59, whose tanker fleet today is reputed to be larger than the Onassis flotilla.) Athina ("Tina") Livanos Onassis was only 17 when she married the stocky (5 ft. 5 in.) Greco-Argentine; she bore him two children: Alexander, now 20, and Christina...
Though largely self-educated, Onassis is well-read in classical Greek history and speaks six languages: Greek, Turkish, English, Spanish, French, Italian. A night person and an insomniac, he is a hypnotic raconteur and used to fascinate guests at dinner parties in Hyannisport with his recollections of Winston Churchill. Friends, particularly women, prize him as a perfect listener. Even more peripatetic than Jackie, he caroms around the world carrying only a battered attaché case and a gold-embossed red leather appointment book. Duplicate sets of clothing await him at his pieds-à-terre in Paris (on the Avenue Foch), London...