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...elderly gentleman with the erect military bearing who strides through the Athens suburb of Ekali on fine mornings is the new Premier of Greece: Field Marshal Alexander Papagos. An Alsatian dog, Fritz, trots by his side, but gone are the two carloads of soldiers who accompanied him everywhere when he was leading the fight against the Communist guerrillas three years...
...half hours after the polls closed in Sunday's general election in Greece, Field Marshal Alexander Papagos was able to claim a landslide victory for his year-old, Gaullist-like Greek Rally Party. With 49% of the popular vote, the party will have 241 seats in the 300-member Parliament. It was the second greatest political victory in modern Greek history, matched only by the Liberal sweep in 1928. The Communists got 10% of the vote, but won not a single seat in Parliament...
Next day King Paul, who a year ago had refused to send for Field Marshal Papagos, though he had then won the largest vote, sent for him and appointed him Premier. The King and the 68-year-old general, who skillfully fought the Fascists in World War II and the Communists in 1949, were once friends and fell out; now the King was at least prepared to recognize that Papagos is the people's choice. The U.S. Embassy in Greece (where $2 billion of U.S. aid has been distributed) hoped for a Papagos victory, but took no open part...
High Noon. A topnotch western, with Gary Cooper as an embattled cow-town marshal facing four desperadoes single-handed (TIME, July...
...People. In Waldwick, N.J., the borough council pondered the situation handed them when the electorate, on three referendums, voted: 1) to start a full-time marshal system, 2) to keep the old marshal system (one man on call for 24 hours), 3) to refuse the council's request for $20,000 to pay for full-time marshal protection...