World: GREECE'S STEADY MAN

A democrat from the land where democracy was born and the word coined, Premier Constantine Karamanlis of Greece arrives in Washington this week for talks with President Kennedy.

A handsome, husky man at 54, Karamanlis is something of an outsider among Greek politicians. He does not come from the tight little circle of Athens families who have traditionally run Greece. Instead, he is the son of a schoolteacher from Macedonia, which Athens sophisticates consider Endsville. But Karamanlis has restored order to Greece's turbulent postwar politics, and stability to its economy. In his six...

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