Evening star., 1961-09-24


tention to the surrounding
, sea.
The Ambassador, who re-
Gently went to Scotland with
his wife Anne for a cool
respite - it's 140 degrees
Fahrenheit in Nikosia, the
capital of Cyprus-says that
they search underwater for
everything from vase frag-
ments to whole temples. The
Navy gives diving instruc-
tions, and an expert from
the Cyprus archaeological
museum goes along to
identify the finds.
And there's no telling what
treasures may be found on
an island where st. Paul
preached Christianity and
where Richard the Lion
hearted married Berengaria
while on a crusade to the
Holy Land.
HUNDRED YEARS AGO
an American by the unlikely
name of Luigi di Palma
Cessnola persuaded Abraham
Lincoln to send him as Con-
sui to Cyprus and though
he didn't skin-dive, he did
enough digging to supply the
Metropolitan Museum with
5000 items!
Incidentally, there is as
much social activity among
the IL foreign ENJOYS on the
little island of 100000, says
Mr.. Wilkins, as there was
among some 40 ambassadors
to India, population 300 mil
lion, when he was stationed
in New Delhi nine years ago.
Makes you think of Peter
Ustinov'S "Romanoff and
Juliet" That's the story of
the tiny republic with only
two diplomats-the Ameri-
can and the Soviet-who
each knocked themselves out
going to social functions so
as not to be outdone by
the other. Only little Cyprus
not only has such rivals as
the American and Soviet
ENJOYS, but also the Israeli
and the United Arab Re-
public's, and the Turkish
and the Greek!
Cyprus, important as the
stepping stone to the East,
may end up in Communist
hands. The Communist
Party, through the left wing
labor union, controls be-
tween 35 and 40 per cent
of the Greek Cypriot voting
public, and since the Greeks
comprise five-sixths of the
population, the Communists
could conceivably elect a
President in 1865 when Ma
karios goes out.
Il
SAM SNEAD, lord of the
Greenbrier Hotels three golf
courses, revealed at White
Sulphur Springs, w. Va, last
week the best golfer among
all the political figures he
has ever played with. He has
yet to play with President
Kennedy so couldn't speak
for his game, but he has
pummeled the pill with such
well known figures as Dwight
D. Eisenhower, and Senator
Barry Goldwater who was
wearing tennis shoes at the
time and swung on the ball
so hard he landed flat on
his back on the ground.
The best political player
he knows is Tennessee Rep
reSentative Ross Bass, known
on Capitol Hill as Large
Mouthed Bass in contrast
to Representative Perkins
(Small Mouthed Bass of
New Hampshire. Ross has
only a three or four handi-
cap, he said.
Sam Snead turned out to
be an amusing Will Rogers
type with one story to tell
after another. He told about
the time he played golf with
the Duke of Windsor and a
British admiral who cussed
so when he got mad "he
took the grass off the
course" But all the Duke
would ever say when he hit
a bad ball was Tut, tut,
what a pity, what a pity"
said Sam, mimicking the
Dukes polite British ac-
cents.
He also told of the time
on the st. Cloud golf course
outside of Paris when he and
two other pros caught up
with the Duke of Windsor
and passed him, caught up
with King Leopold and
passed him, and finally
paSSe a m a ara a h.
Cracked an observer as they
approached the clubhouse,
This is the first time three
caddies have ever been fol-
lowed by three kings"
He had Just had a long
distance call that day, said
Mr.. Snead, from Jackie
Gleason who wanted to stage
a match between him and
Arnold Palmer down in
Florida with Gleason back
ing Palmer. Sure he would
play Palmer, said Snead, but
they would have to play at
the Greenbrier and he
wanted a piece Of Gleason
too," he chuckled.
Although golf will remain
king at the lush West Vir-
ginia spa, It's obvious that
bowling has finally made the
grade socially. The Dorothv