Word: bulgarians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Organized by Marcel Landowski, music director of Andre Malraux's Ministry of Culture, the Orchestre de Paris chose its members as a cordon bleu chef would select truffles. All are conservatory prizewinners, including Bulgarian-born Lubin Yordanoff, 41, who left his first chair in the Monte Carlo National Orchestra to join the Paris group as concertmaster. Fifty-two of its members are from the recently disbanded Paris Conservatory Orchestra, an above-average ensemble in its day. The salary range, high for Paris, runs from $620 to $820 a month, counterbalanced by an exclusivity clause in each contract forbidding...
...Prague has done market surveys that covered up to 3,000 people. In Hungary, the National Market Research Institute keeps 3,000 to 3,500 households under continuous study, in an effort to find out their tastes in articles ranging from coffee percolators to children's wear. A Bulgarian outfit is conducting research on a sample of 4,000 families. "The Bulgarian consumer is now being X-rayed to guide production of cars, TV sets and refrigerators," announced Simeon Panev, a 29-year-old analyst from Sofia...
...Turkey's growing disdain for the eager flirtation with Russia carried on by his chief opponent, foxy former Premier Ismet Inönü, 83. In recent months, however, Demirel has begun some mild flirting of his own. He has received Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer and Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ivan Bashev, sent official delegations to Poland, Russia and Albania. Last week Demirel welcomed his biggest Communist visitor yet: Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, the first Russian Premier ever to visit Turkey...
Shield on the Underbelly. The highway project reflects Bulgaria's growing interest in cultivating its once-hated Balkan neighbors. Foreign Minister Ivan Bashev visited Ankara last year, recently approved an agreement with Greece to increase trade and tourism. Exulted one Bulgarian in Sofia last week: "The Balkan powder keg is a thing of the past." Nothing dies harder in the Balkans than ancient history, however, and the Bulgarians are still effusive each year in their thanks to Russia for freeing them from Turkish bondage 88 years ago. What's more, the Kremlin is pleased to see Bulgaria...
...Bulgarians themselves seem in no great rush either to advance toward the prosperity levels of their neighbors to the west or to shed the yoke of Russian foreign-policy domination. "Everything in my country takes a long time," said one Bulgarian official last week. "After all, it took us half a millennium to get rid of the Turks...