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...Zachariades took to the hills. It was Zachariades' idea to kidnap thousands of peasant children and hold them hostages for the loyalty of their parents. When the U.S.-backed Greek army defeated the Communist partisans in 1949, Zachariades fled to Rumania. At Stalin's bloody-minded behest, he ordered the execution of Partisan General Markos Vafiades. Thereafter he dribbled Communist spies into Greece, whom he denounced whenever the police got on their trail...
...mother's behest, he spent the year in Chicago becoming a chiropractor. (Today Ted Adams' family boasts that he is the best neck-snapper and vertebrae-cracker in the Baptist ministry.) In 1921 Ted and Earl (now an official of the National Council of Churches) graduated as Phi Beta Kappas from Ohio's Denison University, and Ted immediately enrolled at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, where his father had studied. His first call was to the Cleveland Heights Baptist Church, and within a year 26-year-old Pastor Adams had married Esther Josephine Jillson, a small, energetic girl...
...later a top painter herself. An heir to the worst ills of bohemianism (legend has it that he was fathered by Renoir, Degas, or an alcoholic paint dauber named Boissy), Utrillo drank absinthe in his teens, was an alcoholic at 18, began painting in 1902 at the behest of his mother to keep him from drink. At the top of his form (the White Period, 1909-14), Utrillo painted the winding, empty streets and crumbling buildings...
...Teacher? In Redford, Mich., after police installed electric traffic timers near a local school crossing at the repeated behest of anxious townspeople, four schoolteachers were ticketed for speeding within the first two weeks...
...good to say there are plenty of Americans who can meet [the necessary] specifications unless you can name at least one. I can name at least one. He began his public life as a Foreign Service officer in Edinburgh, Scotland. He came to Washington at the behest of a Republican Secretary of Agriculture . . . He held top posts in the Department of Agriculture under Presidents Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt ... He accepted special wartime assignments under Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Truman. He resigned from federal service to become president of Kansas State College and later became president of Pennsylvania State College...