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...Britons could depend on help from guerrillas and from intelligence corpsmen hidden in the hills. One British agent, a Cretan, actually lived next door to General Kreipe's Villa Ariadne, near the north coast. Through him, Moss and Leigh-Fermor learned the general's daily routine to a nicety-off to headquarters by car at 9 a.m., back in the evening any time after 8 or 8:30 p.m., depending on how many rubbers of bridge he stayed to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Kidnap a General | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...express his gratitude for Marshall Plan aid, a Cretan mountaineer named Estakios Protopapadakis sent a present to Harry Truman: a silky-haired, two-year-old mountain goat named Kri Kri. "Kri Kri doesn't smell too strong," Protopapadakis assured the President, "and he won't butt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Hemisphere, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...drift in a waving motion around the room." Homosexuals and other biological misfits, such as hens that cannot lay eggs, are treated to euthanasia. (The same goes for those who violate "custom" and are repudiated by their class.) Otherwise, all violence, even impoliteness, is tabu-though occasionally New Cretan males are allowed to let off steam by pummeling each other with sticks or donning colored shorts and playing football to the music of a song called 0 Land of Our Mother, the Footballers' Queen. New Crete has a large class of bureaucrats known as "recorders." Their chief function...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perils of Utopia | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Dissolution of Parliament and new elections to secure a genuinely contrist "government of arbitration" spell the only way out of Greece's state of disunion, according to Emmanuel Tsouderos, leader of the Democratic Progressive Party and prime minister during the crucial Cretan stand in 1941. Tsouderos visited the University yesterday as a guest of Raphael Domes '19, professor of Philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greek Anti-Royalist Leader Decries Rightist Grip on Sophoulis Regime | 11/20/1947 | See Source »

Shooting for then seventh and eighth wins of the season the Crimson rifle squad will the postal matches today against Vermont and Cretan colleges an the basement range in the Indoor Athletic Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sharpshooters Hit Firing Line Today in Two Postal Matches | 2/14/1947 | See Source »

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