Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disciples were called Christians first in Antioch," says the New Testament (Acts 11:26); Paul and Barnabas founded the church there, and Peter is said to have been Antioch's bishop before becoming the first Bishop of Rome. Antioch (now in southernmost Turkey) was then a notable Mediterranean city of some 700,000 people, but the Moslem conquest, the Crusades and earthquakes devastated the city, and, probably in the 14th century, the patriarchs moved to Damascus...
...born Ed Stevens first went to Russia after graduation from Columbia University, there met (at an economics lecture) and married blonde Nina Andreyevna. Except for time-outs to cover ten World War II battle campaigns, from Finland to the Balkans and North Africa, and a postwar tour in the Mediterranean area, Stevens, a longtime Christian Science Monitor correspondent, has stuck close to the Soviet scene. He is the author of two books on Russia, Russia Is No Riddle and This Is Russia Uncensored. His wife Nina became a U.S. citizen in 1943. is a 1946 graduate of Wellesley. They have...
...movie was made on vacation as well as location, and this shows, much to the film's advantage. The plot is a crazy hopscotch around the Mediterranean, with side-jumps into subplots that pull up short in dead ends. The picture begins with a DeSica-like village square scene--a cacaphonous little brass band and a crowd through which are led four caricature desperadoes in handcuffs. They are Bogie's conspirators in an African uranium swindle. The movie flashes back to explain the scene. The explanation is the movie proper. It involves the characters in a voyage on a terrifically...
...doubt about it, the alliance had a sorry look last week. Its Eastern Mediterranean anchor was fouled by the Cyprus dispute, so that only a handful of Greek officers are back on duty at NATO's eastern headquarters in Izmir, Turkey. On the northwestern flank of the alliance, the "codfish war" between Britain and Iceland was hardly a war, but it was less than friendship...
...French Chief of Staff General Paul Ely last week demanded that NATO commit itself to the defense of all French territories in Africa. "Upon pain of death," declared General Ely, NATO must develop a "peripheral strategy" to prevent the U.S.S.R. from subverting Africa and thereby turning NATO's Mediterranean flank...