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...much alive. Last week, pardoned as part of the Cyprus peace settlement, George Grivas arrived home in Athens and was feted like a hero out of Homer. At the airport Grivas strode briskly down the gangway from the Greek Air Force Dakota that had been dispatched to Cyprus to fetch him, and he pushed first to the arms of his wife. He was dressed as he had lived for four hunted years, in brown sweater, brown britches, polished boots. His tan beret had the blue and white letters EOKA crudely embroidered on it. At his side hung a .45 revolver...
...living." It would be in character if he agreed with that estimate, although he can be called "bad" only in the sense that his rhymes sometimes jingle like a song writer's and that his subjects are often deliberately homely. Literary bookmakers predict that Betjeman (rhymes with fetch-a-man) will be England's next poet laureate. By last week, his Collected Poems had caused a rush on British bookstores probably unmatched by any newly published work of poetry since Byron's Childe Harold burst forth in 1812. Betjeman's 279-page volume was selling...
...returns home only to find himself saddled with a task for which college did not prepare him. His cousin's wife has run away to her father's tribe in the backwoods and Jean-Marie has been picked as just the right man to go and fetch her back. Off he bicycles into the jungle, trying to feel like a modern conqueror but uneasy at the thought of the reception he may get from the savage backwoodsmen-an uneasiness that deepens when he arrives in the middle of a football match played with a wooden ball...
...casual acquaintance of Papa's, a gambling-house shill, lures him to the roulette table, and the cops raid the joint. Poor Papa is booked at the station, and the boy must run home to fetch his identification card. From the sight of his mother in the midst of a difficult accouchement, the notion of the pushcart peddler is banished. All that remains for the boy to do is get Mama to the hospital, spring Papa from the jug, and reunite the whole gang in time for the birth of baby sister...
...telephone wires into neighbors' lines and regularly negotiated cease-fires with government forces by telephone. In Tripoli, most Moslem of Lebanese cities, after the week's roughest scrap (eight dead), the rebels as usual phoned a hospital in the government area to ask for an ambulance to fetch the wounded...