Word: kumrovec
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...World War II, the mysterious leader of Yugoslavia's anti-Nazi partisan forces was rumored to be a Russian general or even a woman, and there was some question as to whether he existed at all. In fact, he was born Josip Broz, in the Croatian village of Kumrovec. His father was a Croat, his mother a Slovene, and he was the seventh of their 15 children...
...Kremlin in 1972, Nixon ate Wheaties and smoked a pipe (Americans had not known he indulged). On another journey, Nixon sat with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito on an old bunk bed in the marshal's restored birthplace in Kumrovec, swapping hard-time stories. When Jerry Ford had a fur hat clamped on his head by Brezhnev on the frozen plain near Vladivostok, he grinned, then immediately walked over to reporters and asked if they had heard the score of the big game back home: Michigan was playing Ohio State...
...became ever more amiable. When Nixon twitted Tito for ordering a Scotch and soda at a morning meeting, Tito, 78, replied: "When you get older, whisky is much better for the blood than milk." Tito even changed his own plans and decided to accompany Nixon on a visit to Kumrovec, where Tito and his 14 brothers and sisters (none of whom survive) were all born in the same bed in a white stucco house. Asking Tito to walk among the villagers while photographers and newsmen watched, Nixon said: "We've got to get this place...
Born: May 25, 1892, the seventh of 15 children of a hard-drinking peasant; at Kumrovec, a hamlet in Croatia...
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