GREECE: Three-Headed Baby

Greece's tall, blond King Paul and Greece's common people were fed up with military defeats, with Communist terror, with the fumbling and venality of Greek politicians. Hard on the heels of the rape of Naousa came news that Karpenesion, a heavily defended provincial capital in central Greece, had fallen to the rebels. The cabinet of doddering old Themistocles Sophoulis resigned. Sophoulis, 88, is lucid for only about an hour a day.

When the politicians went to King Paul with a list of old names in a new arrangement, they found the monarch in...

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