Word: bulgaria
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Britain spends less than half as much per capita on education as the U.S. One result: in proportion of university students to population, Britain ranks 25th among all countries, behind Spain, for example, and even Bulgaria. Another result is such a severe shortage of teachers in Britain's overcrowded state schools (7,089,791 pupils) that just to cut the size of classes to a teachable 30 pupils apiece would require 110,000 more teachers-an increase of more than one-third...
...drone of Ilyushins winging off with supplies for the pro-Communist rebels in Laos. But Hanoi's rulers have an even more important project in mind after Laos. At party dinners, where the cutlery comes from East Germany, the glasses from Czechoslovakia and the brandy from Bulgaria, the talk invariably turns to the conquest of South Viet...
Grubby & Cheerless. Ho Chi Minh is totally dependent on outside aid. Last week he announced a $2,500,000 grant from tiny Bulgaria and a Czechoslovakian offer to build him four new factories. On his own, he has not been able to lift his economy above the subsistence level...
...come to the office only once a month to pick up their paychecks. Despite his nation's urgent need, Jânio not only failed to acknowledge Kennedy's aid offer publicly, but went on negotiating diplomatic ties with the satellite governments of Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria and hinting that he planned to do the same with the Soviet Union...
Meanwhile, with no fuss whatsoever, President Kennedy asked some 40 career ambassadors to remain at their present posts. Among them: Roy Rubottom, Argentina; H. Freeman Matthews, Austria; John Moors Cabot, Brazil; Edward Page Jr., Bulgaria; William C. Trimble, Cambodia; Christian M. Ravndal, Czechoslovakia; Robert McClintock, Lebanon...