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...middle-of-the-road political parties. The orders came via "bandit radio" from Rumania, with the voice of exiled Communist leader Nicholas Zachariades telling Greeks to vote for Premier Nicholas Plastiras' National Progressive Union of the Center in the Nov. 16 general election. While naming Plastiras "a traitor ... an enemy of the people and an agent of American-ocracy," Zachariades said Communist voters must aim at "getting the highest possible democratic concentration," particularly on local slates. The reason: "The [Communists] personally despise the executioner, Papagos, much more...
Tracy got interested in TV 2½ years ago when he was playing in Jed Harris' Broadway production of The Traitor: "I went into '21' one night and here were all these people standing around, not even drinking, just watching Milton Berle. I decided right away that this was for me." Last May the leading role in Martin Kane, which had been successively filled by William Gargan and Lloyd Nolan, fell vacant. Says Tracy: "They opened negotiations with me and I jumped at the chance." He almost regrets that he has made a rule never to tell...
Somehow, Washington kept patience and hope. His capacity for self-control was enormous: when the news of Benedict Arnold's treason reached him, he sent his aide, Colonel Alexander Hamilton, 24, riding off to intercept the traitor, calmly ate dinner, did his best to comfort Arnold's hysterical wife, and within three hours revamped the defenses of Arnold's exposed post-the Hudson narrows at West Point -so that the British could not storm it. When mutinies broke out among Pennsylvania and New Jersey troops in 1781, Washington suppressed them sternly, not because he was harsh...
...wineed, spilling some of his coffee onto the hot dogs. An alert, well informed electorate was one thing, but something was the matter with a college where you could hardly discuss last Saturday's football game without being considered a traitor to the American Way of Life. All you could hear in the dining hall was Eisenhower-Stevenson, Nixon-Sparkman, Bundy-Schlesinger until you were sick of it. Besides, half the blabber, months weren't old enough to vote anyway...
...terror to the traitor an' a first-class...