Word: piraeus
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...Normal. By week's end, the new government was solidly enough in control to relax some of the security precautions. Barricades and machine-gun emplacements were removed from downtown Athens and Piraeus. Tanks returned to their bases. Greece's borders were once more opened to travelers; ports and airports resumed normal operations. Premier Kollias called on businessmen to reopen banks, stock exchanges and factories so that the country's economic life would not be harmed. Still, Greece had by no means returned to normal. Though many conservative politicians were released from custody, hundreds of others remained behind the walls...
...plot is as silly as ever: Puritan bore meets Piraeus whore. Object: education. He gives her a three-week refresher course in the classics which leaves her very sad. She gives him a glimpse of the possibilities of sensual love which leaves him very shattered. It is a distinctly gloomy Sunday all around...
...harborside atmosphere of Piraeus and things Greek, Illya need never have left the port of Manhattan. Except for the sterns of a couple of steamers, the sets are routine Broadway. Manos Hadjidakis' diluted bouzouki score is slumberously unvaried, and no number equals the appeal of the repeated Never on Sunday. The dancers spin like zany revolving doors and slap themselves like victims in a mosquito plague, and there is never the faintest hint of those teasingly slow, sinuous Greek male dances that seem to be sculptured...
...voyages. Modern Greeks are less superstitious. Despite gale warnings one evening last week, Captain Emmanuel Vernikos, 50, decided not to delay the departure of the Heraklion, his 8,900-ton auto-and-passenger ferry on its scheduled thrice-weekly 190-mile crossing from the Cretan city of Canea to Piraeus, Athens' port on the Greek mainland...
...Sixth Fleet's aircraft carrier Shangri-La and scores of other ships converged on the disaster area. King Constantine flew his DC-3 to the scene and circled overhead, sometimes relaying rescue instructions to the searchers. On the dock at Piraeus, thousands of friends and relatives waited for the ships carrying the survivors and the blanket-shrouded bodies. By week's end 47 had been rescued, but the death toll was put at 234, making it one of the worst sea tragedies in Greek history. The government ordered a three-day period of national mourning...