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Only seven days before, Sir Hugh Fo:)t had arrived to take over as Britain's new governor. Cyprus quickly learned that it had a new kind of governor. Unarmed and unguarded, Foot walked through the streets of Nicosia to assess the damage, mingled with shopkeepers. "A governor with guts," admitted Greek and Turk alike, and cheered him. Next day Foot paid a surprise visit to twelve Greek women terrorists held in Nicosia's central prison, ordered two of them released immediately on grounds of health...
...Fo ra few minutes during the Bach Society Orchestra's concert Saturday night, it was difficult to remember that a chamber orchestra was playing in Paine Hall. The sonorous climaxes of three songs from Hindemith's "Marienleben" sounded forth with all the intensity and power of a full symphony. Disregarding the question of propriety, it was an astonishing demonstration of the virtuosity of the orchestra and its conductor, Michael Senturia...
According to Fleming, the "mixture of esteem and spite" Hitler had for the British gave him no clue as to what they would do. When he might have tried to lull them into defeatism, he chose instead to try to scare them with a policy of "fee-fi-fo-fum." This "minatory tone" was a bad mistake. "The menace of invasion was at once a tonic and a drug," writes Fleming. "It braced the islanders to exertions whose necessity seemed beyond question, and it expunged the memories of the disasters they had suffered." The British began to stir themselves...
...Guest? A Guest is the most important person in this hotel . . . We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a service by permitting us to do so." After staging a hectically traditional Christmas Eve party ("Ah doan think it's fai-yuh fo' the Social Hostiss ta hafta plan meals fo' eight reindeer"), the Dennis-Erskine team burns its screwy pleasure palace right down to the ground, but not before a nice boy meets a nice girl there-object, simple matrimony...
...picked up by the AVO "while my hair was still dripping wet" and put in solitary confinement as a spy. Two years later she was moved to the women's dormitory at Fo Utca, where "39 women slept in 14 bunks, breathed air that came through a tiny window blocked by an iron plate. The stench was terrible. For 14 months not a drop of hot water to wash with. In winter the water was so cold that it froze solid. Once, we sacrificed six precious bowls of hot soup to wash our hair...