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...modern village of Pella (24 miles northwest of Salonika), a Greek farmer was digging in his basement in 1957 when he stumbled on two limestone Ionic columns that turned out to be part of the spacious courtyard of a nobleman's house in ancient Pella. At what is now confirmed as Pella's site, archaeologists have since uncovered mosaic floors of exceptional beauty and size-testament to the splendor of Pella's patrician life in Alexander's time...
...sons of a well-off former mayor of Salonika, the Kondogouris brothers invested $400,000 in 1961 to build
Greece's first automotive factory, began assembling a German-licensed farm truck. In 1963 they sold their Salonika plant to Chrysler International for $1,800,000, a deal that gave them enough to start their $2,000,000 Pully venture without outside financing. The Pully, which will be powered by a two-cylinder Fiat engine, weighs 1,100 Ibs., costs less than $1,000 and will-according to National-"motorize the masses." Once the Pully gets going, the company will start work on a small passenger line -which, because the Greeks do not quite have a word...
...continued Common Market associate membership, Prime Minister George Papandreou's government hopes to secure $900 million in foreign capital over the next five years. Last week the government got a good lift toward its goal when King Constantine laid the cornerstone of a $190 million industrial complex near Salonika that will be the biggest single foreign investment ever made in Greece...
...complex, christened the Salonika Industrial Development Plan, was conceived by Boston Financier Thomas A. Pappas, 64, and includes projects by three U.S. companies. Esso Pappas, a partnership between Pappas and Jersey Standard, has started work on Greece's second oil refinery. "Within 19 months," promised Jersey Executive Vice President William R. Stott, "this bare earth will be covered by a refinery producing 50,000 barrels a day of petroleum." Esso is also building a 200,000-tons-a-year ammonia plant, Republic Steel is expected to operate an $85 million steel mill, and the Ethyl Corp. will...