Word: macedonia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there will be no mixing of the sacred and profane." Says Steiger, who was raised a Lutheran: "I consider this part a regeneration" Why was Greece's King Constantine, 24, who as a bachelor did his bit for the scrapyards, driving so slowly along the twisting roads of Macedonia on a state tour with his bride of six weeks, Queen Anne-Marie? "We believe we are expecting a happy event," he explained-say along about next June...
...predawn hours one morning last week, only a few people were stirring in the provincial Yugoslav city of Skoplje, near the Greek border. In the small Hotel Macedonia, facing the railway station, Pilot Aleksander Blagojevic was dressing before going to the airport for an early take-off for Belgrade. Two German girls, tourists from Bremen who were scheduled as passengers on a Belgrade flight, had just left the hotel and were crossing the square to catch the airport...
Shot Bricks. The two German girls had not taken 20 steps across the square when the earth trembled. Behind them the Hotel Macedonia swayed from side to side before tumbling its 180 bedrooms and their occupants into the street. The girls began running and bumped into terrified people pouring half-dressed from the houses. Showered by broken glass, dodging falling roof tiles, they were choked and blinded by a cloud of dust. When it cleared, they saw the airport bus half-submerged in debris...
According to an American friend of mine, however, who spend this summer working on a road in Macedonia in southern Yugoslavia, there is another sector of the youth which is passionately concerned with politics--the members of the youth movement. These students and ex-students spend all of their summers in work camps "helping to build Socialism...
...handsome, husky man at 54, Karamanlis is something of an outsider among Greek politicians. He does not come from the tight little circle of Athens families who have traditionally run Greece. Instead, he is the son of a schoolteacher from Macedonia, which Athens sophisticates consider Endsville. But Karamanlis has restored order to Greece's turbulent postwar politics, and stability to its economy. In his six years as Prime Minister, he has built a modern highway network that connects Athens and Salonica with hundreds of villages that once were far from the main drag, brought electricity to hundreds of thousands...