Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late father's seat on Capitol Hill. Perhaps, like many career politicians, he cannot abide private life. Or perhaps he wants to protect his party from the candidacy of Novelist Norman Mailer, who has been threatening to seek the nomination with Jimmy Breslin, journalist, author and character-about-town, as his running mate for city council president...
...Small-Town Morality. In sophisticated Athens, such sermonizing is glumly greeted. Few politicians from other parties have joined the colonels since their coup. Most refer to them as steno-kephalos, or narrow heads. Athens wits insist that Nikolaos Makarezos was selected to oversee the economy as Minister of Coordination because he was the colonel who knew how to add and subtract. Retired diplomat and Nobel laureate Georges S. Seferiades laments the "state of enforced torpor." But out in the stony, sun-washed countryside beyond Athens, the colonels' austerities are better received...
Faith and Family Honor. To understand both men and towns a little better, TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn toured the home villages of the four top colonels. On Crete, he visited Aghia Paraskevi (pop. 154), where Pattakos was born. He stopped at Dirahion (pop. 613) in the Peloponnesus, where loannis Ladas grew up, and Gravia (pop. 690), home of Nikolaos Makarezos. He stopped at Elaiohorion (pop. 280), a village surrounded by low hills, wheatfields, vineyards and olive groves, where Papadopoulos' father was schoolmaster. In each town the foundations were the same: the church, the cafe, and a code of ethics...
Since the days of Ottoman occupation, village churches have been more than houses of worship. They also developed into centers of Greek patriotism and serve as town halls where local problems can be threshed out and the people protected from the world below before they reach the haven of heaven above. The Premier has already remembered his church at Elaiohorion by giving it new pews and a lectern, an icon stand and a bishop's chair. Pattakos' sister Irene, who still lives in Aghia Paraskevi, recalls their religious upbringing. "Mother taught us to make the sign...
Later Hatred. In later years, the colonels and the country folk developed a special hatred-this one for the Communists, who provoked civil war. In Dirahion, a split-level village where a fast-running mountain stream divides the town, the wrinkled village clerk explains why. "It was in 1947, right there," he says pointing. "Ioannis Ladas' mother tried to run across the street, carrying a baby nephew in her arms. Guerrillas shot her down, killed them both. She was a good woman." In Elaiohorion, Mayor and Cafe Proprietor Nikos Papathanasou, a distant cousin of Papadopoulos, was tortured by Communists...