Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Sent to Palestine in 1948 as assistant to U.N. Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, Bunche had quickly won the count's friendship and admiration. After Bernadotte's assassination by Israeli terrorists in September 1948, Bunche carried on Bernadotte's job. At his headquarters on the Aegean Island of Rhodes the American charmed, cajoled and sometimes bullied testy, mistrustful Arab and Israeli peace negotiators. Bunche worked tirelessly 16 to 20 hours a day, lighting one cigarette off another and drinking vast quantities of orange juice. (Some of his staff members, he recalls, insisted bitterly that the orange...
...most famed statues in the world is the Winged Victory. It was pieced together in 1863 from some 300 fragments found in a boulder-strewn valley on the Aegean island of Samothrace. But the head and arms were missing; ever since, archaeologists have dreamed of finding more of the missing bits. This summer a team of diggers under the supervision of N.Y.U.'s Professor Karl Lehmann uncovered a right hand without fingers, and later, one finger that fitted the hand. Louvre Curator Jean Charbonneaux, on the spot when the find was made, announced last week that...
Packing the ukulele that a Hawaiian bunkmate had taught him to play, he was off to Constantinople. For the next two years the flotilla plied the Aegean and Black Seas. On every shore leave, Godfrey and his fellow musicians of "Admiral Bristol's Bobo Six" beat out their rhythms in Levantine dives and were paid off in free drinks and applause...