Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To King Simeon II, 28, deposed ruler of Bulgaria; and Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela, 29, Madrid socialite; their third child, third son; in Madrid. Title: Prince Kubrat of Panagyurishte...
...quite large enough to flabbergast Thomas Jefferson. From the seventh floor of a granite building of fluorescent-glaring corridors and scarred desks, Dean Rusk rules over 24,200 employees (down a bit from 1950) and a budget of $383,948,000. State has 110 embassies, two legations (Hungary and Bulgaria), 68 consulates general and 84 consulates. Reporting to Rusk are two Under Secretaries, George Ball and Tom Mann, two deputy Under Secretaries, and no less than 16 Assistant Secretaries charged with varying responsibilities...
...what through Hitler's time was known as Deutschland Uber Alles, and even that was borrowed from Austria. Two East European nations are now revising their own postwar anthems, written to please their Russian masters. Rumania is cutting out the line about the "liberating Soviet people," and Bulgaria is bent on sinking the "great sun of Lenin and Stalin which lit our way with its rays...
...some giants to the punch. Since early this year, Krupp has been trying to develop several direct joint enterprises with Poland, but so far has been more successful in setting up triangular trade agreements. A Polish contractor is building a Krupp-designed cement factory in Yugoslavia, and shipyards in Bulgaria are making fishing vessels for Ethiopia under subcontracts from Krupp; the company has offered similar triangular deals to the U.S.S.R. Essen's Rheinstahl has agreed to supply Hungary with steel and to engage later in joint manufacture of machine tools, radiators, boilers and pumps that will be marketed...
...will never be anyone's satellite." But that was years ago, before cockeyed Communist economics, compounded by an almost willful Latin mismanagement, brought Castro's revolution to its present state of decay. "We are now," says one Havana observer, "watching the slow decline of Cuba into another Bulgaria...