Word: mediterraneans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During a 24-hour period on Cyprus last week, only nine shots were fired in anger. This was practically dead silence for the small, cantankerous island that threatens the southern hinge of NATO with dissolution and all of the eastern Mediterranean with embroilment in war between Greece and Turkey...
Beached Boat. In Ankara, Premier Ismet Inonu warned that Turkish patience was at an end. Out of the blue Mediterranean sky dropped flights of U.S.-built jet fighters. At first, the planes swooped low on "reconnaissance" sorties that were clearly intended as a threat to the Greek Cypriots. When the Greeks did not withdraw, the Turkish pilots poured rocket fire into the Greek positions around Kokkina. Three more jets blasted the Kyrenian mountain range as Greek Cypriot antiaircraft batteries filled the air with flak bursts. At the coastal town of Xeros. Turkish jets riddled a Greek Cypriot patrol boat...
...ridge at Saint Paul de Vence above Nice, the museum is the elegantly terraced product of José Luis Sert, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Its ochre fieldstone walls blend into the slope; atop the roof, flying scoops shaped like quarter-cylinders trap the harsh Mediterranean light, diffuse it through milky glass, and bounce it off vaults inside to soften it further. Six galleries are devoted respectively to Bonnard, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Chagall, Braque and Miró; the paintings are from Maeght's collection or gifts from the artists...
...Turks have landed by sea as well, mainly on the safely held beaches not far from Lefka on the northwest coast. Fast Turkish navy motorboats bring 30-man platoons across the 50-mile Mediterranean stretch; they are regularly watched by a Swedish U.N. infantry company that has its headquarters in full view of the shore. In all, some 500 Turkish soldiers have landed there, helping to secure a solidly held 30-sq.-mi. area-an ideal beachhead in case a major Turkish troop intervention should be decreed by Ankara...
...canvas is a bright Mediterranean blue with a narrow upper band of black. On the line dividing the two colors reclines a pasted-on paper-cutout reproduction of Goya's nude Maja. From the nude's hand dangles a string with ring attached. The viewer pulls the string, and the nude says teasingly, "Will you play with me?" Another pull and "I'm sleepy." A third: "Please change my dress." It's really baby talk. Built in behind the painting is the voice box of a Chatty Cathy doll...