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...charms of modern Hellas is that everyone plays the national game of kani politiki (making politics). A fixture of the scene in an Athens café or in any village taverna is at least one Greek spread over five chairs (a prop for each arm, one for each foot and one to sit on), waiting for his vari gliko (strong, sweet coffee), and noting on the back of a box of cigarettes this list: Populists 62, Liberals 62, Union of the Center 46, Social Democrats 34, Union of the Left 11, Unionists 6. These are the main political parties, with...
Possibly a lightning change had struck the Greek economy in six weeks. More likely, the taverna statesmen were right in their suspicions that Paul Porter was kani politiki in an effort to get a cabinet more to his liking...
TIME Correspondent Donald Newton arrived a half hour early, and took up his stand before a restaurant on the square, the Taverna Carioca. A hot wind, the kind cariocas call a suicide wind, blew down from the mountains and put everyone on edge. In the crowded square hundreds were lined up to catch streetcars home. The cops were there already...
...company have been filled to overflowing with a chanting pilgrim band of Milanese, Neapolitan, Venetian, Roman artists who arrived on the steamer Conte Rosso. Among them are Mme. Clara Jacobo, Adriana Boccanera, Beatrice Melaragno, Frances Cairone, Gius- eppa La Puma, and Signori Giuseppe Radaelli, Rino Oldrati, Giuseppe Oliviero, Amadeo Taverna, Italo Picchi...