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...everyone is happy about the trend. Budapest shuddered with the exposure of a private casino for party big shots at Lake Balaton, where the prizes included a nude state-airline hostess, dipped in chocolate. And not long ago a Prague newspaper complained that race tracks "seduced" Czech youth, fostered "idleness, deceit and crime." But another paper wisely bet on the party. "People today have more money than ever before," it said. "You can't blame the state for wanting a slice...
...scene was stupendous. On a sloping hillside next to shimmering Lake Balaton in western Hungary, acre after acre of multicolored tents stood next to row after row of brightly painted caravans. And above them all, like so many regimental battle flags, pennants fluttered in the summer breeze. Said one slightly awed Western European visitor: "I feel that Charlton Heston should step out of that big blue tent and tell us all to charge...
...setting was not the location of a film spectacular. Instead, it was the 27th annual rally of the world's oldest (34 years) and biggest (about 5,000,000 members) camping clubs, the International Federation of Campers and Caravaners (F.I.C.C.). To Lake Balaton and three other nearby sites had come no fewer than 7,000 outdoors enthusiasts from 23 countries...
...Lake. Berliners get together everywhere from the sunny Black Sea resorts of Bulgaria and Rumania to the forested Tatra Mountains of Czechoslovakia. But the favorite rendezvous is Hungary's Lake Balaton, a narrow, 48-mile-long "inland sea" just 56 miles from Budapest. A renowned Central European watering spot since the days of the Romans, Balaton is a pleasant place to visit even without the added incentive of reunion. Its delicate wines-such as the Badacsony szurke barat (Grey Friar)-are eminently sippable, and the shallow, turquoise-blue lake, ringed with breezy cafes and villas, has a bright, Mediterranean...
...moneymaking tourism from the West has increased 40% in Bulgaria, more than 200% in Hungary. With capitalistic resourcefulness, the Communists heavily advertise their attractions in the West. Hungary bought the motels of the 1958 Brussels world's fair and set them down in four tourist towns along Lake Balaton. Bulgaria has built 78 new seaside hotels in the past decade and Rumania about 50. Most of the new Black Sea resorts smack more of Miami than of Moscow, and often practice segregation-Westerners only. While Western tourists (mostly European) at first ventured East out of curiosity, they...