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...gets himself a Buick. But times have changed. When word reached Washington that the King had ordered a yacht in the U.S. (cost: $220,000), the State Department waggled a warning finger. With Greece still in want and still supported by U.S. taxpayers' money-as U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy had explained it to the Greek government-it had no business spending so much money on royal yachting...
...vain did Greek officials explain that the yacht would actually save Greece money: when the King goes visiting among Greece's hundreds of islands, he now requires a destroyer, which is more expensive to operate than a nice new yacht would be. But Peurifoy did not see it that way. This week, palace spokesmen announced sadly that King Paul had cancelled the purchase of his dream boat...
...intervene. Soon thereafter the King commuted the death penalty to five years. Outraged, Papagos let the King know that the palace ought not to undermine his court-martial, asked for Metaxas' dismissal. The King, as proud and sensitive a man as Papagos, refused. U.S. Ambassador John E. Peurifoy rushed into the breach, got the King to send Metaxas off for a vacation...
Ambassador Peurifoy, in the U.S. on a visit, hastily flew back to Athens, tried again to patch up the quarrel between the country's two foremost men. There was danger that, without Papagos, the U.S.-trained-and-equipped Greek army-an important weapon in the West's defenses against Red aggression-might fall apart...
...with three other Democratic Senators and three Republicans, had been quietly looking into a sordid matter: the problem of homosexuals in the Government. The problem had been the subject of nervous explanations, joke-cracking and effective campaign sneers ever since last February, when Deputy Under Secretary of State John Peurifoy offhandedly told Congress that State had gotten rid of 91 employees for homosexuality...