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...head of the ticket, the popular front swept Athens. The popular front's non-Communists had to shout to make their victory orations heard. From batteries of Iron Curtain radios, the Communists started clamoring for national elections in response to "the demands of the masses," to get rid of Premier Papagos and steer Greece on to a neutralist foreign policy. At week's end Papagos decided that the revenge of General Katsotas had gone far enough: the new mayor of Athens, a Papagos spokesman sternly warned, would not be tolerated if his office became "a bailiwick for political...
...Physicist Enrico Fermi, a great man of science who achieved the first nuclear chain reaction and thereby initiated the Atomic Age. This week in Chicago, Enrico Fermi, 53, died of cancer. If he had lived a few years longer, medical techniques growing out of his own discoveries might have rid him of his fatal disease...
...This year we have been more careful in accepting pledges," he explained. "We tried to accept only those who we thought would actually give blood, and not those who signed up just to get rid...
...result is that the most fertile land in Europe is a net food importer. The central promise of Premier Mendès-France's administration is a pledge to rid the country of the restrictions that keep the French from properly realizing their potential of plenty...
...listens to the peasants, also squatting there, who have come to tell him their troubles. In this way, U. N. Dhebar has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of the poor people's problems. Though an ascetic, Dhebar is also a fighter. He scraped up a police force that rid his region of dacoits, cruel bandits whose leader enjoyed cutting off his victims' noses...