Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlucky Number. In all, there are at least 30 underground groups in Greece. Some consist only of a dozen men, a resounding title and a typewriter (mimeographs must be registered with the police). But all the groups have a common aim: to weaken the regime's internal and international standing. By creating an impression of growing unrest and instability, they hope to scare off tourists and persuade the U.S. to urge Papadopoulos to hold free elections...
...regime's security forces have cracked down hard on the underground. Thirty-one suspected royalists, ranging from general to captain, are in prison on charges of trying to subvert the army. More than 100 Patriotic Fronters and other Communists received long jail terms. Sometimes the inexperience of the resistance workers betrays them. Police are waiting to interview a young Athens professor who is recovering from injuries caused last month by the explosion of a bomb that he was assembling. In his cellar, the police found twelve plastiques. The 13th was the unlucky...
...speech is a fairly good indication of the general level of wit to be found in Putney Swope, a frenzied, almost desperate comedy by a barely emerged underground film maker named Robert Downey. Downey-who bills himself in the credits as "a prince"-has got it into his royal head that what America really needs at this point in its history is another put-down of the advertising business. Accordingly, he has come up with the not totally unpromising notion of a group of black militants taking over an ad agency and bombarding the country with race propaganda concealed inside...
...palazzi along the Grand Canal. Because of the melting of polar ice, the sea level at Venice is rising .055 in. a year. At the same time, the island is sinking .106 in. a year -partly because industrialists and farmers have been pumping away the cushion of underground water. An even more serious factor has been dredging operations in the lagoon between Venice and Marghera, its rapidly expanding industrial satellite on the mainland...
...with today's pop sound for that to be true. Instead, the festivals seem to have become an experience akin to the spring vacation at Fort Lauderdale, where swarms of beery or pot-high youngsters congregate for a bash to remember. Says Ray Riepen, president of the Boston underground radio station WBCN: "A rock festival is like a football game now. It doesn't have anything to do with music any more. It's just a scene...