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Frilled Skirts. By evening, Ike was in Athens, and cheering throngs lined Poseidon Avenue and the streets of the suburb of Phaleron (where St. Paul is said to have landed when he journeyed to Greece). Rose petals pelted him as the procession moved past half a million people. "Viva!" they yelled (while the Communists chanted "Hyphesis"-Down with Tension). Ike could see the Parthenon glowing in light on the Acropolis, the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, and a small obelisk monument to Americans who were killed in Greece's 1821-29 war for independence from the Ottoman...
...biggest supporters, so the Miss Greece finals went on last week as scheduled. Shiny lines of Buicks and Cadillacs brought 700 VIPs (including ex-Premiers Sophocles Venizelos, Constantine Tsaldaris and a dozen Cabinet or ex-Cabinet ministers) to the swank, open-air Argentina Club, by the waterfront at Phaleron Bay. Admission charge: $9 a head (drinks extra). Eleven finalists paraded, first in bathing suits, then in evening gowns. Outside the club, 200 policemen waited in their squad cars for something more exciting to happen. It soon...
...second annual pilgrimage of the Order of Ahepa is big news in Greece. This year, because the return of the Ahepans not only coincides with Holy Pasch (Greek Easter, April 20) but also the 100th anniversary of Greek Independence, two Greek war- ships will welcome the Ahepans at Phaleron Bay. Sailing with the Ahepans as patrons, guides, were Senator & Mrs. William Henry King of Utah, former U. S. Minister to Turkey Henry Morgenthau...
...Aged Paul Koundouriotis, Provisional President of Greece, '72, suddenly ordered out a Greek naval plane, at Phaleron (Athenian naval base) last week, stepped into the ship as passenger and flew for the first time in his life. Destination: the Island of Hydra, 50 miles distant, where His Excellency was born...
...from Marathon in memory of the runner who died in his effort to bring to Athens the news of the Persian defeat. The bicycle races will be contested on the Phaleric plan half way between the city and the seashore, the swimming and rowing races in the roadstead of Phaleron, and the yacht races in the Saronic Gulf. There is to be an illumination of the great monuments of antiquity, a grand historical torchlight procession representing scenes from Greek history, and a series of representations of dramatic masterpieces, beginning with a tragedy by Sophocles and ending with Wagner's "Lohengrin...