Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cover: Photomontage by Robert S. Crandall from a photograph by Arthur Shay. The sculpture, Wedding Rings, is by Bulgaria's Svetoslav Djalazov...
...does acrobatic maneuvers. For a finale, Ringling's "human missiles," the Zacchinis, are fired from a cannon almost simultaneously. In the South, the Red company's program includes Sweden's "Unbelievable Lindstroms," who ride the high wire, all three of them balancing from a single unicycle; Bulgaria's Silagis, generally acknowledged as the world's most dazzling teeterboard act; and Gunther Gebel-Williams, a wild-animal tamer so impressive that Irvin Feld spent $2,000,000 to buy out an entire circus (belonging to Gunther's then mother-in-law) just to land...
...Bulgaria's Balkan is hardly the traveler's dream airline. Pilots do not land; they slap the planes onto the ground. Darkly exotic stewardesses dispense local drinks in tranquilizing amounts. Balkan rates last in ground efficiency, ends its flights at a scruffy terminal in Sofia. The restaurant is poor, but has a captive clientele since taxi service is worse...
Memories of Model A. Henry Ford would like to break into the small but growing Communist automotive market. His company's subsidiaries in Europe already sell cars and trucks to Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, Rumania and Bulgaria. For their part, the Russians need more Western help in developing their car-and-truck industry. Fiat is putting up a huge auto plant in the Soviet city of Togliatti-which Ford toured last week-but production is two years behind schedule...