Word: nico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twins on the Right. Many of Erato's Greek countrymen would answer that question with a violent yes; Mamma Erato's son is Nicholas ("Nico") Zach-ariades, leader of the Communist guerrillas who harass Greece from the north. But the butcher is gentler. "There are no real Communists in Greece," he says, "only misery...
...Fofo and Sasa married rich right-wingers and live comfortably in a fashionable quarter of Athens, where they do their best to forget their relationship to the rebel chieftain. Another son, 34-year-old Mimi, lives in the dingy room with Erato, but he is a poor substitute for Nico. Vacillating, weak-chinned Mimi is often sullen and bitter because the government kicked him out of his longtime job in a local bank when he refused to sign an anti-Communist affidavit, but Mamma Erato has no use for his tiresome expostulations on the subject. "We mind our own business...
Chile's mountain riches will supply the raw materials: ore from Bethlehem's El Tofo mines, 500 miles up the coast; coal from the undersea veins of nearby Lota; power from Fomento's hydroelectric plant at neighboring El Abánico. Only limestone has been a problem. To get it, a crew of 130 men, with rat-hungry cats, is now setting up installations on rainy, rat-infested Madre de Dios Island, 900 miles down the coast...
Some 5% of infants with retrolental fibroplasia also suffer from a complication - congenital glaucoma (hardening of the eyeball). Eyeman Terry says that pupil-contracting miotics (e.g., morphine, nico tine), if administered soon enough after birth, would knock the percentage down to 1. Other early babies are born with lento-cornea (adhesion of the lens to the cornea). A simple operation, if performed soon enough, can save their sight...
High Tension. Mexico City observers who had said, "All they need is another sinking," now said, "Here they go!" The Government blocked all dollar exchange to prevent liquidation of Axis funds, ordered all troops in readiness. The Banco Germánico paid off all its depositors and employes. Some leaders of the Catholic-fascist Sinarquista movement whirled to a pro-war position and tried to get their puzzled stooges to follow their 180° turn. Axis stores were deserted and Axis nationals kept off the streets...