Word: mercouri
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King is dead," actress Melina Mercouri said last night after a concert sponsored by the Greek Students of M.I.T. at Kresge Auditorium. "His countercoup was a farce...
Billed as "An Evening with Melina Mercouri," the concert became a rally for the restoration of Greek democracy. "Freedom or death," she cried to the tightly packed audience of several thousand. "I believe in democracy and the U.S., they will help us. And even if they don't help us, we will be free again, we will...
...regime: right-wing officers bow out to reactionaries; one purge succeeds another until there remains only a core of deeply paranoic rulers with a dramatic flair for secret police and censorship. Combining the absurd and the petty, the Greek colonels prohibit political talk in private homes, and deprive Melina Mercouri of her citizenship. Puritanical instincts have prompted them to ban mini-skirts, long hair, classical Greek plays, and to declare compulsory church attendance...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-10:50 p.m.). Melina Mercouri and her husband Jules Dassin in their catchy-tuned film caricature Never on Sunday (1960), the fevered brow from which the current Broadway hit musical, lllya Darling, sprang...
...brief, unofficial visit to New York "without fanfare or publicity" by King Constantine, 27, and Queen Anne-Marie, 21, prior to more formal stops in Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec, Montreal and finally Washington to confer with President Johnson. But nothing ever happens without fanfare or publicity when Actress Melina Mercouri gets involved. The Greek star, relieved of her citizenship and property because of her criticism of Greece's military junta, learned that the royal couple planned to lunch with Secretary-General U Thant. Planting herself like an avenging Athena in front of the TV cameras outside the U.N. entrance, Melina...