Selection: Michalis Katsigeras

PAPAGOS’S HEALTH: The minister to the prime minister, Mr Georgios Rallis, spoke yesterday evening with the prime minister, Field Marshal Alexandros Papagos, who is staying in a hospital in Zurich. As has been announced, the prime minister’s health is excellent, according to yesterday’s written bulletin by his personal physician, Dr Heffler. Tomorrow, Field Marshal Papagos will be discharged from the hospital and will move to the countryside near Zurich for a short rest. He is expected return to Athens in 8-10 days to resume his prime-ministerial duties. AEK STADIUM: Yesterday afternoon, construction work began on extensions to the grandstands at the stadium of the AEK soccer club in the presence of acting Prime Minister Mr Panayiotis Kanellopoulos, the mayors of Nea Philadelphia and Nea Ionia, delegates from sporting federations and thousands of fans. BIOGRAPHY OF P. TSALDARIS: The biography of Panayis Tsaldaris has just been published by Mr Georgios Bouros, with an introduction by the deputy prime minister Mr Stephanos Stephanopoulos.