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Guerrilla Days. Everything was far different from when he had last seen Athens. A staff officer of the 2nd (Athens) Division when the Germans and Italians overran Greece in 1941, he had organized, after the fall of Greece, a right-wing group known simply as "X." Alongside the British, it fought first the Nazis, then the Communists in the Greek civil war of 1947-49. He had run for Parliament as an extreme right-wing candidate and lost. Then he began to think of doing something about the British rule on Cyprus, the island where he was born. For months...
Indiana: In a big switch for a Republican state-and still vindicating insistent newspaper polls-Evansville's Democratic Mayor R. (for Rupert) Vance Hartke, 39, overran Governor Harold Handley, 48, who was bedeviled by recession ills, high taxes and highway scandals...
...voluntarily took command of a small forest encampment at El Hourane, a job that no one else wanted because the duty was both dull and dangerous. Early in February this year, the risks caught up with him. Algerian rebels, disguised in the Spahi uniform of Dubos' troopers, overran the El Hourane post, carried Olivier Dubos and 17 of his men into captivity in the Kabylia mountains...
...same technicality robbed the varsity's Frank Saia of a triple in the third, but it was just as well for the Crimson because Saia overran third base and was tagged out before being sent back to second...
...been beset by more breakdowns in recent months than a three-wheeled buckboard in a spring thaw. First off, Goodie, who wanted badly to run again for governor, was knocked off his seat by Senate Minority Leader Big Bill Knowland, who, with the support of Deadeye Dick Nixon, overran the Knight riders with big guns and big ambitions. Goodie thereupon picked himself up and allowed as how, on second thought, he would just as soon head East for Bill Knowland's seat in the U.S. Senate...