Word: list
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...List. The officers who seized power in the name of King Constantine shared one uniting passion: an almost puritanical desire to reform and cleanse Greek politics and society. One of the first orders was not the execution of saboteurs or the establishment of a five-year plan; it was a Cromwellian decree that girls must stop wearing miniskirts, that boys must get short haircuts and that all young people should regularly attend church. Colonel Papadopoulos compared the take-over to a surgeon's treatment of a patient. "If the patient is not strapped to the table," he said...
Greece last week lay firmly strapped to the table. Though life seemed to return to normal with the reopening of schools and businesses, men with guns-and the guts to use them-ruled the country. Civil rights were suspended. A list of don'ts ordered Greeks not to retain shotguns, not to use radio transmitters and not to criticize the new regime. Also on the don't list were soccer (might draw excitable crowds) and fireworks (might make a sentry trigger-happy). The press was under total censorship. Telephones and telegrams to places abroad were monitored by censors...
...that the experienced student activists from such organizations as SDS were desperately needed to get the program off the ground. But when several prominent SDS members--including Michael S. Ansara '68, Harold B. Benenson '67, and David O. Loud '68--came to a meeting to help draw up a list of political actions, dissension was apparent...
...Harvard golf team continued its rampage of reversals with a clear-cut 5-2 win over Cornell at the Myopia Golf Club yesterday. The Big Red, which killed the Crimson, 6-1, last year, joined Williams, Boston College, Penn, and Brown on the list of teams which beat Harvard in 1966 but fell to the powerful 67 squad...
...each product, plus a pile of punch cards. As he shops, he selects white cards for spices, blue for canned goods, red for dairy products, and so on. Finally he gives the cards to an operator who feeds them to a computer; in seconds the machine spews out a list of the items, prices and a total. Minutes later, a clerk appears from the stock room with the order. So rationally arranged is the selection that a list of 50 or more goods takes only a few minutes. And with only three assistants, Turquet can handle 30 people...