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...spasta, ola kapsta [Smash all, burn all]." The notion obviously strikes a chord in the Greek soul. As viewers of the film Never on Sunday will recall, tipplers in the portside dives of Piraeus punctuate their drinking contests by breaking glassware, plates and occasionally furniture. In Athens' best clubs, people like Aristotle Onassis have been known to pay as much as $700 in damages for a single noisy evening of crockery tossing...
ILLYA DARLING brings Melina Mercouri from Piraeus to Broadway to re-create the role of the prostitute of Never on Sunday. Big, brassy and sometimes boring...
...Melina, and not surprisingly she is the best thing about this musical distillation of it, delivering five of the songs written by Manos Hadjidakis with lyrics by Joe Darion. Amidst the jingly rhythms of the Greek taverna, Melina's breathy bedroom voice stirs a sensuous mood in Piraeus, My Love, is slyly wistful in the Medea Tango as she sings her own version of the myth, and as joyous as ever in her theme song, Never on Sunday...
Hiqh Treason. The junta arrested a handful of youths in Piraeus for scribbling antigovernment slogans on walls and sentenced six persons in Larissa to jail terms of 13 months to five years for speaking unfavorably of Greece's new masters. It scheduled for this week the trial of one of its star prisoners, Leftist Andreas Papandreou, 48, who is accused of conspiring to commit high treason as the alleged leader of the Aspida plot. There was also an indication that Andreas' father, former Premier George Papandreou, might be brought to trial for treason. An approved rightist daily...
...common scene in Athens was the long lines of relatives queueing up at Piraeus soccer stadium, the local race track and other detention centers to bring clothing and food to the 25 politicians and 5,000 alleged Communists who remained in army custody. Nervous about its image abroad, the government let foreign newsmen briefly visit the two star prisoners: Former Premier George Papandreou, 79, and his 48-year-old son Andreas, the antimonarchical leftists whose victory in next month's now-cancelled elections seemed so certain that the army had felt compelled to move first...