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...Ragged Army. He gave up his commission in disillusionment-to marry a rich widow, gain election to the House of Burgesses (he bought vast quantities of ale and rum, as was the custom, to get out the vote), and to live the life of a prosperous but restless country gentleman. But he did not falter, 16 years later, as the fever of rebellion swept the colonies. "The . . . peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with Blood or Inhabited by Slaves," he wrote. "Can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice...
Since 1918, Queen Salote-descendant of a 1,000-year-old dynasty-has ruled her country from a white wooden palace on the main island. A widow since 1942, she has two sons who attended Sydney University, from which she herself graduated many years ago. Her eldest son is her Premier...
...month along the twisting roads that lead toward the rugged interior of the Peloponnesian peninsula. In a tranquil mountain valley, they came to the village of Kalavryta. When the villagers learned that the visitors were Germans, there were sullen mutterings in the village square. A white-haired woman in widow's weeds glared at the man. "He is one of them," she said. "He must...
...Communist guerrillas came back to Kalavryta too in 1948, during Greece's bitter civil war and for a month held and looted the village. Again there were cries for help. The King and Queen came; so did General Van Fleet. Athens granted $40-a-month pensions to the widows in black. But soon Athens forgot; three years ago the pensions were stopped, and important officials no longer thought to come. "It is the'way of governments to forget," said a widow of Kalavryta...
...deal involved the sale of approximately 200,000 shares (out of 513444 outstanding), at an estimated price of $900,000, by Johnson's widow and son, C. F. H. Johnson Jr., who succeeded his father as Botany's head. At that price, control of Botany seemed a bargain, even though it is short of working capital. It has up-to-date plants and a five-year contract with Philadelphia's H. Daroff & Sons, makers of "Botany Brand 500" suits. Daroff agreed to buy 15 million yards of woolens at a cost of approximately $75 million...