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...that matter, John Cunningham, playing the young intellectual who hires Zorba to run the mine he has inherited, does little to suggest that he is Greek (which in this version, unlike the film, he is). But like Miss Karnilova, he compensates handily. As Niko, the man Zorba teaches how to live, Cunningham works hard to make his characterization more than the dull stiff it easily could be. He is, of course, helped out by the writing. Joseph Stein, the author of the show's book, establishes Niko quickly in the second scene and never allows him to fade from view...
...United Nations he may sometimes seem a dogmatic hardliner. It turns out that Soviet Ambassador Niko lai Fedorenlco, 54, is also reasonably good with the one-liners. He showed up on TV's Merv Griffin show, brandish ing a thick Havana cigar, which made him look as if he'd learned his Marx from Groucho. As he mentioned Channel 5, the station that broadcasts the show in New York, he grinned: "My wife likes Channel 5 (applause) . . . Chanel 5 from Paris, you know [laughter...
...Named Joseph. But as the Greek army, with the help of U.S. General James Van Fleet, smashed at the hard-pressed Communist guerrillas in the mountains, Niko and his Roula returned to the safety and comfort of Communist Bucharest, where they set themselves up in an apartment next to Stalin Park in the fashionable diplomatic district. From the safety of Rumania Niko kept control of the Greek Communist Party, while Roula, as head of the women's department, beamed radio appeals to the Red underground. It was a fine life. They toured satellite Europe in a limousine driven...
...even so well-placed a Communist boss as Niko sometimes had to concern himself with the disintegration of the movement back in Greece. Niko, wily as ever, got someone else to do the dirty work. First, there was Nicholas Ploumbides, a lifelong Communist. When Ploumbides was captured and shot, Niko denounced him as "a traitor" to the Communist cause. Then there was Nicholas Beloyannis, an old comrade-in-arms who was also captured and shot (some of the boys began to wonder whether Beloyannis had been honored with the mission because he had flirted too openly with Roula...
...Snapshots. After such reversals, the time called for heroic measures, but not quite so heroic as Niko's returning to Greece himself. He decided to send Roula. Last February, Commissar Roula slipped across the border with her lover's instructions to reorganize the underground and bring back information on all the key figures in Greece. Niko's trusted old bodyguard was with her. Last week Athens announced that the two had been captured, and the Boss's Wife charged with espionage. In her pockets they found wads of drachmas and six well-thumbed photographs of five...