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...entire body of Greek legislation and unearth obsolete laws that are frustrating modern agricultural development. His salary: 7,000 drachmas ($233) a month. There were other offers, but this was the best. A day or two before TIME appeared Georgakakis actually had his first chance, thanks to Queen Mother Frederika, who had induced the Federation of Greek Industries to give him a job at 3,000 drachmas a month...
Unhappily, Georgakakis has drawn a total blank: apparently no one wants a blind and crippled lawyer. Even in a recent audience with Queen Mother Frederika, Georgakakis was told only: "Why come to me when so many important people could help you?" But all the important people seem to be unmoved by the fact that Georgakakis is officially the ablest new lawyer in Greece-and without doubt its most determined...
Malign Planets. Last week the seers were busier than ever making their forecasts for the new year, and, as usual, their admirers could take their choice. France's Madame Frederika, voted most reliable voyante of 1966 by a poll of Paris newspapers (on the basis, among other things, of her prediction that two French scientists would win the Nobel Prize), predicted that Germany would make significant advances toward reunification and that Russia might land on the moon. England's Maurice Woodruff foresaw a turnabout in England's fortunes, the fall from power of both Castro and Lyndon...
...work of a young and rash ruler who was attempting to step out of the role of a constitutional sovereign and assume absolute authority. Street demonstrators loudly proclaimed that the King was the tool of his constitutional adviser, Constantine Hoidas, 48, and German-born Queen Mother Frederika, long a popular target damned in placards as "the Hitlerina." But in fact Constantine seemed to be making the essential decisions himself, relying on twelve years of training by his father, the late King Paul, who once observed that "the most important thing is for a King to know the feeling...
...born Queen Anne-Marie, 18, has been dashing about Athens with her husband King Constantine, 25, visiting galleries, strolling hand-in-hand through the park, dining in public restaurants and attending scores of gala functions. At last the world's youngest and loveliest queen sailed with Queen Mother Frederika for Corfu. There, in Mon Repos, the royal family's summer palace by the sea, she will await the birth of her first child, expected some null in late June or early July...