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Greek Against Goliath. "Your name is a Doric column in the pantheon of the great heroes of our glorious nation," said Archbishop Theoklitos, Greek Orthodox Primate of Greece, presenting Grivas with the ancient Greek symbol of victory, a silvered laurel wreath. Grivas was weeping. "Small Cyprus fought Goliath," he said. "It did not succumb." He had consented to a peace that brought self-government to Cyprus but forbade it enosis (union with Greece). He handed the mayor of Athens a small bag of earth taken from his mountain lair, and said emotionally, "This bit of soil, soaked with the blood...
...entire population of the island-walked, pedaled and bounced in decrepit buses into the capital of Nicosia (pop. 80,000). They clogged the narrow streets, clotted the tortuous alleys. "Makarios, Ma-ka-ri-os," they chanted as the black-robed archbishop rode in triumph beneath arches of myrtle and laurel in a cream-colored Mark VII Jaguar. This, declared Makarios, is "the resurrection of our country...
...Cambridge Drama Festival has announced that one of its productions this summer will be Macbeth, with Siobhan McKenna as Lady Macbeth. Jose Quintero will direct and Jason Robards, Jr. may play the title role. Miss McKenna and Quintero planted a mountain laurel yesterday, for the benefit of photographers, on the site of the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center, where the Festival will present its season...
...Spanish though it takes the last man and the last peseta." Rebel General Gómez vowed: "We will be free, though we have to raise a tomb in each home." New York Herald Correspondent Stephen Bonsai, father of the new U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, visited Havana's Laurel Ditch, the Spanish execution ground, and wrote: "Clots of dark human blood, as we slipped on it, clung to our feet like glue. In the wall, a thousand ghastly bullet holes." Spain's efficient, Prussian-descended General Valeriano ("The Butcher") Weyler, the elegant Marquis of Tenerife, decreed that...
...games. Beset by injuries to key players and hanged in effigy by students, Bennie decided he had had enough, stepped down last week to be replaced by his backfield assistant, Chalmers ("Bump") Elliott, 33. ¶ To the cheers of a record crowd of 40,276 at Maryland's Laurel Race Course, the U.S.'s unsung Tudor Era led for the entire mile and a half, at the finish of the $100,000 Washington, D.C. International was apparently an easy 3 ½length winner over the Australian entry Sailor's Guide. The University of Maryland band proudly played...