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Markos' stronghold is the range of the Pindus Mountains, extending like a probing finger from Albania and Yugoslavia into the heart of Greece. In those crags Markos Vafiades can claim to rule. And his influence extends to any rocky slope throughout Greece where armed men may hide beyond the easy reach of troops not anxious to stage a manhunt...
Surveyors originally planned to cover ten percent of University undergraduates, but final results encompass the opinions of only 197 students, 3.6 percent of the College Population. Nevertheless, directors Ray F. Gootenberg '50 and Stanley H. Lofchie '50 claim the poll significant, since it represents "an accurate sampling" of College...
...Mourning Becomes Electra" can hardly claim to be entertainment. It can be compared neither to the Hitchcock thriller that also mixes psychology and murder, nor to the "good" European film, also dramatic--but on purely human, and therefore familiar, terms. "Electra" is all O'Neill--deeply emotional, sonorous, and occasionally pretentious. Much of the picture consists of agitated, often repetitive talk, and even the general excellence of the acting cannot always keep the audience fascinated by the tortured characters who seem to keep themselves busy day and night expiating the guilt of their ancestors...
Prospectors who discover uranium will be caught immediately in the government's atomic blackout. Finds may be reported only to Canada's Atomic Energy Control Board or the Mines and Resources Department. While the government will permit a prospector to stake and exploit his claim, he may not disclose its location or existence. Maximum penalty for violation: a $10,000 fine and five years' imprisonment...
Cornered Children. The second book, Silent Children, is a novel by China's Mai Mai Sze (pronounced roughly may may she), daughter of a former Chinese Ambassador to Washington. It cannot claim to rank with Innocents. But its strength lies in its dramatic presentation of an appalling contemporary problem-the "dispossessed children" of World War II. While Author Barker's juveniles lose their innocence in relatively peaceful country areas of wartime England, Author Sze's homeless ragamuffins live in a camp on the mud flats of an Eastern river, and make sorties into a nearby city...