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...General Plastiras made his attitude crystal-clear: ELAS must first lay down its arms before EAM could enter his Government. Thereafter he promised: 1) re-establishment of democratic institutions, 2) free elections. He added grimly: "I hope the rebellion will end with the rebels laying down their arms . . . trusting my word that I will not allow a dictatorship. ... If not, I will naturally be compelled to clear the situation by force." Leftish Foreign Minister Sofianopoulos 'backed his leader; ELAS was a minority, must lay down its arms...
...first man to fly a heavier-than-air machine in public demonstration (two years before the Wright brothers).*The memorial, in Rio de Janeiro's Aeronautic Museum, was a 10-inch, gold-plated sphere, supported by a winged, kneeling figure in wood. Suspended within the sphere was a crystal ball containing preserving fluid in which floated the cold, now colorless heart of Santos-Dumont...
...shooting and considerable static, Sergeant Flanagan was not crystal clear, but enough came through to tingle listeners' scalps: from the quiet "All right, men, let's go" of the Marine commander, to Flanagan's terse "Here come the Nips...
...church of her own. "Somehow," she once said, "money has always come to me when I have needed it," and somehow it came to her now. In 1922, with $1,250,000 donated by her followers, she built the huge (5,300 seats) Angelus Temple, provided it with crystal doors, a silver band, a $25,000 radio station. In the Temple her talents found full scope. Clad in white flowing robes, her hair burnished gold in the glare of the arc lights, a Bible under one arm and a bunch of red roses in the other, she exhorted the Angelenos...
...Crystal Bird Fauset, onetime friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, onetime member of the Pennsylvania Legislature (its first and only Negro woman), quit the Democratic National Committee's offices in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, walked two blocks up Madison Avenue to join the G.O.P. at the Roosevelt Hotel. Said she: "Bob Hannegan is a dictator-a man who is not willing to deal democratically with Negroes...