Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Visits to Aunt Magda. In Bulgaria, 19% of all cars on the road are chauffeur-driven, and Poland has 27,000 chauffeurs for its officials. All of the thousand or so cars with curtained windows that bump along Albania's dusty roads are government-owned, usually contain bureaucrats and their drivers. Even the tiny Czechoslovakian veterinary service has somehow managed to acquire 900 chauffeured cars. As a sop to socialist equality, the bureaucrat often rides in the front seat beside his driver, who is nonetheless expected to hop out and open the door for him. Throughout the East bloc...
With so many high-riding executives, Poland is considering retiring 10% of its motorized fleet and chauffeurs. Bulgaria has decreed strict restrictions on who can use official cars. In Rumania, where Romînia Libera reports that an "astronomical" amount is spent on chauffeured cars, the government has ordered their use limited to top-echelon people. Rumania is also launching a drive to find "useful work" for the displaced chauffeurs and, along with Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, is trying to sell the cars to the bosses to console them for the loss of their drivers. As a result, many a party...
...filling its tube with U.S. shows. Dr. Kildare is so popular in Poland that Communist Party meetings are no longer held on Wednesday nights. Perry Mason argues his cases in eloquent Serbo-Croatian in Yugoslavia. Rawhide rides hard in Rumania, and Alfred Hitchcock is a chilling success in Bulgaria...
...republic has a per capita income of $500 per year, the highest in the area. From 1961 to 1965, Lee spent $315 million on economic development, focusing on power plants, water facilities, roads and other precursors of industrial growth. Singapore has negotiated trade agreements with the Soviet Union, Hungary, Bulgaria, Great Britain, the United States, and several other nations...
...eccentric Russian scientist, Elie Metchnikoff, is basically responsible. Puzzled by the longevity of villagers in the backwoods of Bulgaria, he bent over his test tubes at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in the early 1900s and concluded that so many Bulgarians lived to be more than 100 because they ate lots of fermented milk. Their yogurt contained Bacillus bulgaricus, which, Metchnikoff decided, chased out the "wild, putrefying bacilli in our large intestine." He consumed untold gallons himself, discoursed profusely about what he believed to be its beneficial effects, and died at the age of 71, leaving behind a mere handful...