Word: tavernas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome, the Luces settled into the newly refurbished embassy residence, Villa Taverna, while the Italian Foreign Ministry began rearranging precedent and protocol. Baron Michele Scammacca called on the new ambassador instead of waiting for her to make the usual protocol visit to him. "Since the ambassador is a lady," said a Foreign Office spokesman, "we have revised the rules of protocol." She is the junior ambassador in the Rome diplomatic corps, but under the new rules she will be seated at formal functions "as a lady" rather than as ambassador. This technically places her in the position usually assigned...
...charms of modern Hellas is that everyone plays the national game of kani politiki (making politics). A fixture of the scene in an Athens café or in any village taverna is at least one Greek spread over five chairs (a prop for each arm, one for each foot and one to sit on), waiting for his vari gliko (strong, sweet coffee), and noting on the back of a box of cigarettes this list: Populists 62, Liberals 62, Union of the Center 46, Social Democrats 34, Union of the Left 11, Unionists 6. These are the main political parties, with...
Possibly a lightning change had struck the Greek economy in six weeks. More likely, the taverna statesmen were right in their suspicions that Paul Porter was kani politiki in an effort to get a cabinet more to his liking...