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Last year with Metaxas dead and gone, the big Athens newspaper Ethnos ran a "Miss Greece of 1952" competition, and their winner placed third in the Miss Universe contest in Long Beach, Calif. After that, shrewd promoters with an eye for a fast drachma started beauty contests all over the place. In Athens alone, there were more than 30 such contests. All this was heady stuff for a country where only last year women got the vote...
...Duluth City Council received a letter postmarked Athens, Greece, from one Jack Brockway, an Air Force lieutenant. In order to remain an upright local citizen, the young warrior wrote, he was enclosing 30,000 drachma (about $2) to pay for an old Duluth parking ticket. Safety Commissioner Ralph G. Fiskett announced that the ticket would be "on the house" and mailed the lieutenant a refund-in drachma...
Athens, outwardly calm and even prosperous, was gripped by growing uneasiness. Late into the night, Athenians crowded open-air cafés, sipping Turkish coffee and talking about the still-falling drachma, the bad Government, the bad opposition, all the daily disasters. Few bothered to talk about U.N. Said one of them: "First we believed U.N. would end power politics. Now nobody is satisfied. The left feels that the Greek question is an internal problem, but U.N. disagrees. The right feels that the Greek question is an international problem, but Gromyko disagrees...
...ardently pro-Greek. By implication, the film pleads for continuing UNRRA relief, increased U.S. sympathy and support, a free expression of popular opinion in the coming Greek general elections. Most eloquent shot: two small, hungry Greeks ratting around the trash of a city dump, pushing aside worthless, repudiated drachma notes in their search for something...
...like one. Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan recommended him to the Greek Government as the man who could most likely stabilize the country's economy. Already he can point to several notable achievements. The cost of living has declined 30% despite the fact that Varvaressos has devaluated the drachma and raised wages...