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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rings on His Fingers. This band was led by a capetánios named Papouas, a onetime physical culture student in Athens who had joined ELAS during the German occupation. Papouas boasted that he had been a scourge of Thessaly and Roumelia for seven years. The name Papouas was a pseudonym-taken, he said, from a primitive tribe whose members wore rings on their fingers and toes and in their noses. Papouas had many rings, but he wore them only on his hands...
...Kilometer 47's most ardent booster, Cornell-trained Dr. Alvaro Fagundes, director of Brazil's agricultural research, is well aware that the school's policy of refusing to compromise its high standards has some drawbacks. The cost of operation is high, entrance examinations extremely stiff, the student body relatively small. But Fagundes also knows that, in any case, Kilometer 47 can not do the job alone. A basic problem for the government is to reverse the drift of the population toward the industrial coast. And even when the hinterlands are manned and producing, new transportation systems must...
...passed a political milestone: his regime survived its first noteworthy revolutionary plot. At Aguas Hediondas (literally: Stinking Waters), a sulphurous spa just outside Ecuador's southernmost city of Loja, army officers arrested Bolivar Galvez, a member of Quito's City Council and the president of the Quito Student Federation. In Loja itself, they picked up Lawyer Julio Moreno, director of Ecuador's opposition Liberal Party. Farther north in Cuenca, the country's third city, several army officers were taken into custody. All were charged with conspiracy to overthrow the government...
...student at Williams College, Terris Moore dreamed of climbing Mt. Everest. That dream never came true, but he did make the first ascent of Alaska's Mt. Bona (16,420 ft.) and was a member of the only party to reach the top of China's Mt. Minya Konka...
...photog-rafer. Explained Amputator Astley-Cock: "It is a wise policy to recognize the universally valid principle of festina lente (hasten slowly). To abolish 'ph' at the beginning of words would mean to be out of line with the dictionary . . . Where, for instance, would a foreigner or student find 'fthisis' to learn that it meant tuberculosis...