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...comedy was provided by a clutch of Albanians and Egyptians. The Albanian bicycles kept falling to pieces, and one of their riders was last seen alongside a road in Poland ruefully studying a wheel that had parted company from its bike. One of the Egyptians, Hassib Farouk, instead of resting after the day's lap scurried about to buttonhole unwary spectators and explain: "I have only been riding four months...
...Iron Curtain escapees, half of whom live in camp dormitories. So far, 14,492 visas have been issued in Italy to relatives of U.S. residents, 49 to orphans, 23 to Italian refugees and eight to escapees. From all countries, only 68 escapees have entered the U.S. Said an Albanian in an Italian camp last week: "It would be better if the U.S. didn't raise our hopes with such...
...feet by a Greek count, Jane was baptized into the Orthodox faith, married again, arrived in Athens where she had another baby, broke with her husband and became the mistress of Greece's King Otho (son of her former lover, King Ludwig). After swapping Otho for an Albanian general, Jane proceeded to Syria, where a "very possessive" young Arab "swept her . . . into the black Bedouin tents of his encampment." Jane was 47, still beautiful, and bursting with ''girlish excitement and rapture" when she settled down for keeps with a sheik. She lived contentedly in the desert...
...police chief boiled up anew. When the steam lifted, handsome Hoxha was out and Colonel General Mehmet Shehu, hard-boiled army chief of staff and Minister of Interior, was in as Premier of Albania. Hoxha apparently still hung on to his job as head of the Albanian Communist Party...
Racing barefoot over sharp stones, he escaped into the night. At dawn he saw familiar Mt. Stougara, and knew that the Greek border was only a short distance away. He skirted an Albanian outpost, and an hour later met a Greek army patrol...