IN THE last few months, a growing sensationalism in the press has created uneasiness among responsible citizens. This situation was aggravated by the murder of CIA official Richard Welch in December, an event exploited by some of the press in an offensive and irresponsible manner.
NOVEMBER the third of this year was dedicated to the Preservation of European Architectural Heritage. The Government on that day approved a 555 million dollar contract for the building of shipyards, a steel factory and a cement plant at Pylos on the Bay of Navarino.
It was springtime in Athens and young Vassos Kanellos had stopped with several friends to practice the five games of the pentathlon before going on to school.
DURING a cosy moment in the two-day talks between Harold Wilson and Constantine Karamanlis, the British Prime Minister referred to a predecessor of his, George Canning, as a proof of the long duration of Anglo-Hellenic friendship.
IN July 1975, in the tenth year of its excavations, the Greek Ar¬chaeological Society at Archanes under the direction of John Sakellarakis uncovered an unplundered Mycenean tholos tomb in Archanes, a large Cretan village. It is situated south of Iraklion, about ten miles beyond Knossos.
FRENCH President Giscard d’Estaing’s four-day official visit to Greece last month was the first state visit since the reestablishment of democracy over a year ago.
BEGINNING on July 21 and continuing throughout August, Greeks could be seen queueing up at kiosks all over the country.
IT WAS not so long ago that at least twice a day traffic along Leoforos Kifissias and Vassilissis Sofias between Psychiko and Constitution Square would be brought to a halt.
WE were interested to see the ‘For Sale’ sign go down in front of the house of a determinedly royalist family in Kifissia a few weeks ago, imagining that the real estate slump was over and that some democracy-loving shipowner had actually paid the asking price of 10,000,000 drachmas a stremma (a quarter of an acre).
THERE IS a saying amongst Greeks that in June the swallows return — and by swallows they mean the foreign tourists. Indeed they come punctually each year in great flocks, clustering on beaches, perching on crumbling old columns, pecking at the local specialties and fluttering through museums in great droves.
