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Communists and well-meaning liberals outside Greece, particularly in Britain, this year started a concerted campaign against the Karamanlis regime, and against the royal family-notably Queen Frederika, who was accused of Nazi connections. Bertrand Russell's ban-the-bombers joined the fray, and last April, when Frederika was in London for the wedding of her third cousin Princess Alexandra, she was set upon by a crowd of demonstrators and forced to seek refuge in a private house. Britain's anti-Greek chorus was swelled by Lord Beaverbrook, who, for reasons of his own, scurrilously attacked...
...shroud of wildness. Twice in the first three innings he was in serious trouble, despite the fact that he struck out seven in a row during that interval. The difficulty reached a peak in the third when the junior left-hander walked in the only Yale run of the fray...
...very possible that Khrushchev will give up one of his posts, more likely the government job." The free-for-all was clearly getting out of hand; somewhat unprofessionally the Guardian's Polish-born Soviet expert, Victor Zorza, shrugged, "it's all guesswork," then plunged back into the fray...
...these matches, Orville Freeman, 44, displays qualities useful to any U.S. Secretary of Agriculture-an all-out combativeness coupled with the ability to lose, mutter "Aw, shucks" and return to the fray. For Freeman's job is the most thankless in the U.S. Government. Freeman's predecessor, Republican Ezra Taft Benson, called it a "monster" and a "sordid mess." For 30 years, the Federal Government has been ineffectually wrestling with the ever bigger surpluses produced by U.S. farmers. In the process, the Agriculture Department has spent many billions of dollars, piled up huge stocks of surplus farm products...
...force in Katanga: "Take all necessary action in self-defense and to restore order." Spearheaded by 5,700 tough, bitter Gurkhas, the U.N. force methodically swept disorganized Katangese troops from their guardposts on the road to Northern Rhodesia. Power lines fell in the fray, leaving shabby little Elisabethville (pop. 180,000) without light, water or phones...