Word: piraeus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just across Kanellopoulos Street from a small British-owned bleach factory in Piraeus (the port of Athens) stands a building that was once a profitable bordello. Today, fitted with an imposing guard tower at each corner, it is the Greek government's Vourlon Prison, involuntary home of many a condemned member of Greece's outlawed Communist Party, serving time for their parts in Greece's bloody civil war, or for stirring up trouble since then...
F.D.R. to Churchill: "What do you think of the possibility of our inducing U.J. to meet with us in Piraeus, Salonica or Constantinople...
With a resplendent Marshal Tito aboard, the Caleb sailed into the Greek harbor of Piraeus last week on a state visit. It was flanked by six Yugoslav and six Greek warships and heralded by a 21-gun salute and the zooming of Greek air-force planes overhead. Soon the one-time peasant agitator and soldier of Communist fortune was swapping chatty conversation with King Paul and Queen Frederika. Local Communists (Moscow variety) were clapped into jail for as long as Tito was in town...
Greece, after posing at their summer palace with Crown Prince Constantine, 13, for an engaging family photograph, set out from the Piraeus in a cruiser, slipped quietly ashore at Naples and traveled incognito to Austria. They will journey through Europe, sail for the U.S. in late October. At the" same time, two other Greek leaders landed in Italy and were feted with maximum pomp and ceremony. Premier Alexander Papagos and Foreign Minister Stephanos Stephanopoulos were met at the Rome airport by a delegation headed by Italian Premier Giuseppe Pella. That evening, going to a reception in Rome's Castel...
...Greece: $133 million of projects ranging from dams, irrigation works and five small hydroelectric plants to rehabilitation of the Piraeus port facilities...