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...hour before this picture was taken, the confetti-speckled, 9,644-ton liner Excalibur, carrying 114 vacationers and 130 crewmen, steamed down New York Harbor, bound for a leisurely cruise to Marseille, Naples, Alexandria, Beirut, Piraeus, Leghorn and Genoa. Thirty-five minutes after leaving her Jersey City dock, the Excalibur collided with the Danish cargo ship Colombia in the Narrows below Manhattan. The liner, gashed from its deck to below the water line, was ignominiously tugged to the mud flats off Brooklyn, and its unhappy passengers wound up (via harbor tug) back in Jersey City. The Colombia...
Eager Traveler. With returns incomplete, Plastiras' party was neck-and-neck with Dino Tsaldaris' Populists (Royalists). Sophocles Venizelos' Liberals were next. Sofianopoulos' Democratic Front, which got one-third of the vote in Athens, Piraeus and Salonika, was fourth, and the Social Democrats were fifth. The Social Democrats are resolute antiCommunists, but Sofianopoulos' group believes that it can do business with the Reds. As the returns came in he said cryptically: "My hobby is traveling," meaning that he would like to be Foreign Minister and try out some of his ideas for appeasing Russia...
...holding it together would be entrusted to a younger deputy Premier: 74-year-old Alexander Diomedes, economist, Byzantine scholar, novice in politics. Some Athenians professed to see a portent in the fact that, on the day the new government was formed, a two-headed baby was born in Piraeus...
Fear is in every volley that sounds at Piraeus...
...AMAG report showed that five airfields were being "winterized," work had started on repairs to three stretches of highway, repairs had begun on port installations in Piraeus and Salonika, and work would soon begin on clearing the Corinth Canal (blocked by German demolitions since...