Word: phaleron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frilled Skirts. By evening, Ike was in Athens, and cheering throngs lined Poseidon Avenue and the streets of the suburb of Phaleron (where St. Paul is said to have landed when he journeyed to Greece). Rose petals pelted him as the procession moved past half a million people. "Viva!" they yelled (while the Communists chanted "Hyphesis"-Down with Tension). Ike could see the Parthenon glowing in light on the Acropolis, the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, and a small obelisk monument to Americans who were killed in Greece's 1821-29 war for independence from the Ottoman...
...biggest supporters, so the Miss Greece finals went on last week as scheduled. Shiny lines of Buicks and Cadillacs brought 700 VIPs (including ex-Premiers Sophocles Venizelos, Constantine Tsaldaris and a dozen Cabinet or ex-Cabinet ministers) to the swank, open-air Argentina Club, by the waterfront at Phaleron Bay. Admission charge: $9 a head (drinks extra). Eleven finalists paraded, first in bathing suits, then in evening gowns. Outside the club, 200 policemen waited in their squad cars for something more exciting to happen. It soon...