ON the night of April 21 we left our offices on the corner of Alopekis and Loukianou in downtown Athens and headed for home. The demonstration, organized by the youth branches of all the political parties, was in progress a few blocks below on Vasilisis Sofias.
WITH the first boom of the cannon up on Lycabettus we were out of bed in a second and hastily dressing. At intervals bands could be heard strutting by with flurries as they marched to their appointed places. We answered several hysterical phone calls from visitors to our fair city, and explained that we were not having a revolution and that the cannon was merely saluting the occasion of our Independence Day.
THE Council of Europe has declared 1975 The Year of European Architectural Heritage.
A representative of the telephone company complained the other day that local service is poor
IF one excludes pistol shots and monkey bites, it was only the Third Fall of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg.
It is usually from up-stage — but if it isn’t it certainly looks that way. It is a/ways quick, it is always a deep sweep down to the footlights followed by a long ‘cross’. It is always an intimate recognition of the audience before even so much as a ‘how-do-you-do’ to the other actors. This is the Vouyouklaki ‘entrance’.
The Setting: IN post-junta Athens it is not only the political parties that have shifted position, but the squares in which political rallies take place.
REMEMBER the last time we voted? It’s hardly more than a year ago, but if it seems longer than that it may be that the procedure was so simple. There were no programmes to think about, and no choice of candidates.
THE place was a balcony high up in a hotel in Thessaloniki. The occasion was the opening of the International Trade Fair.
FEW statesmen of modern times have been called upon to take the reins of government under worse conditions than those that greeted Costas Karamanlis.
