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Faith and Family Honor. To understand both men and towns a little better, TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn toured the home villages of the four top colonels. On Crete, he visited Aghia Paraskevi (pop. 154), where Pattakos was born. He stopped at Dirahion (pop. 613) in the Peloponnesus, where loannis Ladas grew up, and Gravia (pop. 690), home of Nikolaos Makarezos. He stopped at Elaiohorion (pop. 280), a village surrounded by low hills, wheatfields, vineyards and olive groves, where Papadopoulos' father was schoolmaster. In each town the foundations were the same: the church, the cafe, and a code of ethics...
Litton has been asked to plan and largely supervise an $830 million program to develop tourism, industry and agriculture in the western Peloponnesus and on Zorba's own picturesque island of Crete. A contract signed last month makes Litton the consultant and fund raiser for the first $240 million and 3½ years of the program, with management of subsequent projects to be decided later...
...Crete, Litton's plan includes raising tourist capacity from 60,000 to 620,000 people, irrigating 60,000 acres of the Messara Plain, developing mines and industry so as to increase employment by 72%. In the western Peloponnesus, Litton proposes that Greece increase the number of hotel beds from 1,000 to 50,000, build three new airports, develop five industrial centers and five harbors, and transform Olympia into some sort of Greek Disneyland...
Muni, by Patrick Leigh Fermor. A memorable portrait of the enduring people who inhabit Greece's Peloponnesus, a sort of mythical rock garden of the gods...
...When God had finished making the world," say the natives of Mani, "he had a sack of stones left over and he emptied it here." Petroprolific Mani is the middle tine of a twisted three-pronged peninsular fork that jabs into the Mediterranean from Greece's Peloponnesus. About as remote from the 20th century as the people of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Maniots dwell in a kind of telescopic time capsule that includes Homer but little more than a hint of the Industrial Revolution. Few Maniots read or write. They have no radios, movies or telephones...