Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mike Colikas was born 70 years ago in the Greek village of Pyrgi on Chios
...birthplace of Homer. He left home at the age of 23 to seek his fortune in the U.S. After a number of false starts, he found it as the proprietor of a barbershop and beauty parlor in Pittsburgh, Pa. Three times since luck smiled upon him, Mike had returned to Pyrgi as a heelobowie. In 1926 he dropped in on his birthplace and helped to restore the village church. In 1939 he paid another visit, and left behind in the church tower the biggest and handsomest clock the villagers had ever seen. Last summer, after selling his business, Mike went...
...Mike asked nothing in return for his generosity, but when election day came up, the contending candidates for mayor both withdrew and the villagers swarmed to the polls to elect Mike Colikas by a vote of 2,145 to 2. After the polls were closed, the two dissident voters came around to apologize in person. They had meant to cast their votes for Mike, they said, but they were illiterate and couldn't read the ballot...
...deteriorating circumstances, a U.S. general last week urged an honest college try in Indo-China. "I haven't even begun to think of writing off this country," said Lieut. General John ("Iron Mike") O'Daniel, head of the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group in Saigon. "Americans don't walk out on a situation because of a few setbacks, or because we don't get dollar-for-dollar value...
...have earned a reputation," Iron Mike went on, "for standing by people who need our help. We must show that we are willing to help our friends, even though they may be down. This is a new kind of situation. But it's a test of our guts and resiliency...