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Triumphal Reception. At first it seemed as if his plan might succeed. As his plane landed at the seaport town of Kavalla, 200 miles north of Athens, royalist army officers greeted him and put him aboard a helicopter for a flight to the town square, which was filled with a cheering crowd. Some men lifted the King to their shoulders and carried him in triumph to the town hall, where he spoke to the crowd from a balcony. Cupping his hands like a megaphone, he shouted, "United we shall win! United we shall win!" Then, accompanied by two tanks that...
...World War IPs North African and Italian campaigns; of leukemia; in Washington. After the Sicily landing, Keyes led a makeshift provisional corps 200 miles straight across the island's mountainous interior in only three days. He caught the Germans by surprise at Palermo and captured that vital seaport almost without a shot...
Unlike Virginia's Williamsburg or Connecticut's Mystic Seaport, Shelburne (admission: $3.00) is not a tidy, scholarly reconstruction of any one town or period. Only a third of the buildings show objects grouped together in museum fashion (although many are worth it: Shelburne's collection of 500 handmade quilts and coverlets is without peer). Most of the pieces are simply scattered throughout the buildings. "Some collectors have the place and find the piece," Mrs. Webb once explained. "Not I. I buy the piece and find the place." Six of Shelburne's houses, for example, are furnished...
...this new novel, his fifth to be issued in the U.S., Amado, 54, tells tall tales of Bahia, the great, sun-drenched seaport that the Brazilian government calls Salvador. The first of his three themes deals with the astonishing marriage of Corporal Martim-a cardsharp and famed capoeria* fighter-to Marialva, who is as beautiful as a saint in a procession but as dark and devious as Lilith. This story soon blends with one about Negro Massu and the christening of his blue-eyed son. There are problems here, since Ogun, the Voodoo god of iron, has been named godfather...
...company so overburdened with incompetent politicians that Argentina was importing the fuel for the first time in a decade. He was boss of government-owned railroads with so much obsolete equipment and featherbedding that they were costing taxpayers $1,000,000 a day. Also in the package was a seaport complex that had been idled by strikes for a total of 85 days the year before. For a start, he raised some $40 million by a tax on autos, collected delinquent income taxes by allowing payments on the installment plan. He boosted prices on fuel, electricity and subway fares...