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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bleak city hall of Kozane, a northern Greek mountain town, 13 peasants stood before a U. N. field team. The peasants had been hostages of General Markos Vafiades' Communist Andartes. In the mixed Greek-Slav-Albanian dialect of the Macedonian border people, they haltingly told their story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILDREN: As the Twig Is Bent | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...first time in more than 400 years, the 60,000 Greeks of the Dodecanese* had something to cheer about. They packed the festive, narrow streets of their medieval capital city of Rhodes as a Greek destroyer, escorted by U.S. and British destroyers, nosed into the mountain-rimmed harbor, and King Paul and Queen Frederika landed to take formal possession of the islands. In 1522, when Suleiman the Magnificent stormed the battlemented castle of the Knights of St. John, the islanders had become Turks; since 1912, when imperial-minded Italy won its Turkish War, they had been Italians. This week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Back in the Fold | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...imperious nose resembling a mountain bird's beak, Don Francesco majestically strides along under an immense faded green umbrella; its edges are much frayed by rubbing against the grey stone walls that lean over the narrow, cobbled streets. Shepherds, wrapped in lambskins, and black-shawled women bow low to let the priest's umbrella sweep over them as he sails by. "God be with you, Don Francesco," say the men. "God preserve you and us," say the women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MAMMON & THE GREEN UMBRELLA | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...creeping over the New England landscape this winter and obligingly carrying rubbernecks to the heights of mountain ranges. The "Sno-Cat", a cabin cruiser on tractor treads, carries sightseers up the slopes to spectacular panoramas that were once granted only to skiers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow Novelties Entice Ski Misfits | 3/4/1948 | See Source »

Then there's always the Skimobile at North Conway and the Aerial Tramway at Cannon Mountain, which provide passengers with magnificent views unobtainable at lower levels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow Novelties Entice Ski Misfits | 3/4/1948 | See Source »

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