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...four months Exile Premier George Papandreou had been pitched and tossed in the blanket of Greek politics. In Cairo there were diehard royalists; in Greece, diehard leftists. At the Lebanon Conference to reconcile Greek factions (TIME, May 29), Greek factions fought about the King's return, civil liberties, Governmental posts for members of the Greek underground Government (PEEA). Envoys of the Communist-led EAM, biggest of the homeland's resistance groups, were offered five Cabinet posts, insisted on holding six key posts. When their demands were refused, the men of EAM returned to Greece in a huff...
Soon the check bounces. So does the bobbysock idol, who is tossed about by accelerated slapstick like a Boy Scout in a blanket. In less tumultuous moments he sings, dances, makes love simply, smiles. These accomplishments are more or less superfluous. As shuddering exhibitors remember from his first picture, Sinatra's name on the marquee is sufficient to guarantee lipsticky posters on the outside, moaning galleryites within...
...Over them in the last two years nearly 5,000 Lend-Lease planes have been ferried to the Soviet Union. The route passes over rugged mountain country where the temperature in winter sometimes drops to 70 below. But the airway is relatively free of the fogs and rain that blanket the Pacific Coast from Puget Sound to the Aleutians. And it is the shortest practical route to Siberia and the coast of Asia...
...start Janie (Joyce Reynolds) likes to doubletalk and to schmooze with drab civilian "Scooper" Nolan (Dick Erdman) at blanket parties. Then the Army arrives, to use Janie's home town as a base for maneuvers, and Janie puts away childish things. Thereafter Private Dick Lawrence (Robert Hutton) maneuvers exclusively with...
...been running the mile for two years, and last spring got down to 4:38 finishing eighth in a blanket finish at the Ohio State Championships. Previous in this affair he had blazed home to win the Dayton city-wide meet in 4:40, after fighting off half a dozen other 4:48 milers...