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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stone houses nestling against the peak of Mavri Petra (Black Stone). So hasty was Markos' retreat that he left over 2,000 pounds of bread in the village ovens. All the houses in Aetomilitsa had Communist slogans painted in red. The wall of the lecture hall in the largest building, the military academy, bore the slogans, "Men Are Judged by Their Deeds" and, just below, "Long Live Markos...
...Satchel Paige took one long, pleased look at the 78,382 fans. Said Satch: "I should be working on percentage." The crowd that jammed Cleveland's Municipal Stadium last week was the largest in major-league night baseball. All Cleveland had come to see 1948's biggest drawing card pitch the league-leading Indians into their eighth straight victory...
...every atom of any metal there are some six atoms of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, 500 atoms of helium, and 5,000 atoms of hydrogen (still to be burned). The same proportions of atoms exist in the near vacuum of interstellar space. Not only do the universe's largest bodies behave in much the same fashion as its smallest atoms; its densest matter has the same basic composition as its most dilute matter...
...world's largest bell (200 tons) is in Moscow's Kremlin. It fell and cracked in 1737, was never rehung, and never rung again...
World Council of Churches (Wed. 1:15 p.m., Mutual). Special broadcast from Amsterdam of the year's largest international church conference...