WHEN a UPI reporter recently broke the news that American School of Classical Studies archeologists in Athens had discovered the famous Poikile Stoa in the ancient Agora, the Greek papers cried ‘foul’ and claimed the Americans had reserved the scoop for their own media instead of first informing the Greek authorities about their find.
AMONG the highlights of this vear’s summer spectacles in Athens was a series of performances by the Ice Ballet of Kiev at the Stadium.
THE Minister of Communications made an announcement the other day to the effect that construction would finally begin on the projected Athens Subway system with the digging of two test tunnels, one at the junction of Vassilissis Olgas and Amalias Avenues and another at Sepolia.
THE trials and tribulations of young lovers do not seem to change through the ages, although sometimes their ending is a happier one.
A FEW days after last month’s Athenian appeared on the newsstands I received a strange phone call from a mysterious person.
I AM not normally in the habit of communicating intelligibly with my internal organs. Indeed, apart from an occasional rumble from my stomach and an unobtrusive but steady heartbeat, the silence of my insides is exemplary.
DURING the recent earthquakes in Athens, many families decided the safest place to be was in the family car. The experiences of one such family are described in the following letter, sent to reassure a concerned relative abroad.
AT a cocktail party last month I saw Costaki Dyskilios again, standing alone with a glass in his hand and the customary constipated look on his face. Everybody else was talking about the recent release of the American hostages in Iran and I asked Costaki what he thought about the whole affair.
FEW people who come to Greece for the first time, these days, have any illusions about what lies in store for them.
AMONG the many meetings held under EEC auspices in Brussels and elsewhere to discuss various problems and promote the cause of European unity, a singular one took place last month in the Belgian capital.
