Word: ljubljana
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...Djilas' native Montenegro, and Serbia's greatest poet. Njegoš is severely out of phase with Djilas' usually remarkable work, however. It is turgid in style and parochial in scope. Even in the U.S., where there are more Serbs than in all Ljubljana, Njegoš is not likely to find much more of an appreciative audience...
...there are 3,000,000 registered players, it is the national sport. Every commune, factory and office has its Ping-Pong league: in one Shanghai plant alone, there are 140 teams. So it was no surprise when last week's world table-tennis championships got under way in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, that the Red Chinese were head and shoulders above the players from 46 other nations. "With them," said a veteran European competitor, "table tennis is not a game...
Protected by bodyguards who brushed off newsmen and autograph hunters, the Chinese arrived in Ljubljana four days before the tournament began, set up camp in a schoolhouse twelve miles outside town. They brought their own food, their own cook, even their own sparring partners, trained in the styles of individual opponents-including the "tennis" grip favored by Western players over the older "penholder" grip still used with devastating effect by the Chinese...
...Greece--perhaps worse. Not so the North which appears to be at about the same economic level as most of Austria. Buildings are in good repair, people are reasonably well dressed, and cities are quite crowded with automobiles. Strangely enough, the only poverty I noticed was in one of Ljubljana's best visited tourist attractions, the large castle on a bluff in the middle of town from which the city was defended against Turkish invasions from the 13th to the 17th century...
...graces every major town in Yugoslavia with vast 'You are there' exhibits of political cartoons, marionettes used in cabarets, tanks, rifles, grenades, and other memorabilia celebrating the victory of Tito's Partisans over the Nazis in 1945. Neither tourists nor citizens seem to visit these and the one in Ljubljana was no exception in this respect. Within the long marbled corridors and the impressive exhibit rooms were two people besides myself--the director and his secretary...