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Eleven dollars will buy a one-way air ticket from Athens to Crete, and still another unseen aspect of the Greek way: Candia's fragrant food bazaar, the Minoan ruins near Knossos, and the high Lasethi plateau, crammed with hundreds of white-sailed windmills. In any of the little plateau villages, a traveler can buy his lunch merely by hailing, say, the butcher, who will put a table outside and provide wine, bread and cheese, while curious, good-natured Greeks in baggy trousers, sashes, boots, brocaded vests and fierce mustaches gather round and ask the stranger's name...
...Gaulle closely questioned a recent Tunisian emissary on this very point. To another visitor, De Gaulle made clear his willingness to build up the stature of Ferhat Abbas in the F.L.N. as a counterpoise to the extremists. But his personal estimate of Abbas, a onetime druggist from the arid plateau country south of Bougie, is not high. "The pharmacist of Setif," he remarked, "would have made a barely passable Radical deputy-sort of an Algerian Queuille."* Executed Settlement. De Gaulle is moving cautiously toward an eventual face-to-face meeting with Ferhat Abbas. De Gaulle no longer demands a cease...
...state guesthouse in a long cortege of limousines through streets dark and deserted except for the squads of soldiers guarding intersections. Early next morning, the Ilyushin flew over the mist-shrouded mountains of northern Laos to a grassy landing strip on the Plaine des Jarres, an 800 sq. mi. plateau, so named because it is dotted by ancient, granite burial jars weighing up to 100 tons...
Rouge in the Rubble. Hacilar, now reduced to little more than a farmer's field, has 16 building levels, one on top of another. Digging down to the sixth level of rubble. Mellaart, who has roamed the Anatolian Plateau off and on for a decade, found the remains of brick houses with windows, double doors, walls three feet thick and carefully constructed staircases leading to a second story. The discovery of grinding platforms and storage bins for wheat, barley, peas and lentils convinced Mellaart that the Late Neolithic inhabitants of Hacilar were successful farmers who probably had domesticated cattle...
...pensions, railroad retirement checks and social security. Queried by TIME correspondents, employment experts around the country last week were virtually unanimous in predicting that unemployment will get worse before it gets better. Even if a boom comes soon, says the Labor Department, unemployment will roll along a high plateau...