Word: bulgaria
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...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...
...early April, the rest late in May. There could be no doubt about the results. Although 45% of the plants sown in April came down with Maize Disease, only 3% of the May plants were infected. Similar tests, adjusted for local temperature variations, have also proved successful in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Italy, where corn farmers are learning that they can reap more by sowing later...
...Soviet Union's demand that Israel return to its original boundaries, would it not be appropriate for the Israeli representative to the U.N. to request that the Soviet Union do likewise, that is, return East Berlin, Poland, Danzig, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, two portions of Finland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania and several outlying bases to their original owners...
...able-bodied to "work together to build a better life under socialism," the unsocialist truth is that its workers have become just about the world's biggest goof-offs. In Rumania, they cost industry $75 million in wasted time during the first four months of this year. Bulgaria lost 25 million man-days last year because of absenteeism. When Polish factory workers show up at all, says the Communist trade-union paper Glos Pracy, they "work only about 70% of their normal eight-hour...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). On land, sea and in the air: the National A.A.U. Gymnastics championships from Northwestern State College, Natchitoches, La.; the World Invitational High Diving championships from Las Vegas; the International Parachuting championships from Varna, Bulgaria...