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...fawning fidelity still counts for anything among Communists, Bulgaria must be Nikita Khrushchev's favorite satellite. Even East Germany, which usually can toady just as well as Bulgaria, has caused Khrushchev some embarrassment with its insistence on the ugly Berlin Wall. Yet this month, when Bulgaria celebrated the 20th anniversary of Communist rule, Nikita did not bother to attend. Last week East Germany's Walter Ulbricht was in Bulgaria commiserating with Premier Todor Zhivkov, 53, who certainly deserved better than a cold Khrushchevian snub...
Large and small, the signs of change are everywhere. So far, only Bulgaria has fully escaped the contagion of restiveness sweeping Khrushchev's once-docile satellites, symbolized by Rumanian Leader Gheorghiu-Dej and Yugoslav President Tito's collaboration in a giant power and navigation project inaugurated last week on the Danube River...
Compared to almost $300 million currently being spent by the U.S. on Peace Corps, USIA and cultural exchange programs, France seems to be getting more than her money's worth. Even behind the Iron Curtain-in Bulgaria, Poland and North Viet Nam-French teachers are vigorously shaping minds to the French way of thought. In Hanoi, the Lycée Albert Sarraut has never closed its doors. Rome's Lycée Chateaubriand, considered...
...sell them. His unorthodox selling and barebone prices quickly cornered 10% of the washer market. Bloom then bought out lifeless Rolls, an old razor maker, to use as his corporate vehicle, expanded into dishwashers, refrigerators, trading stamps, rental TV, and even cheap holiday tours for Britons on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast...
...debacle, he is surely at no loss for money. "I should not like to be poor again," he said recently, "and I have taken all the precautions to see that I shan't be." As he cruised in his yacht on the sunny Black Sea off Bulgaria last week while pandemonium hit the London Exchange, John Bloom must have reflected on the wisdom of those precautions...