Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Highest honors went to Georgi Dimitrov, famed hero of the Reichstag fire trial who died in a Soviet sanatorium last July, to Vasil Kolarov, who succeeded Dimitrov as Bulgarian Premier only to die six months later, and, inevitably, to the living god Joseph Stalin. Some samples: Kostenec summer resort, the Kapinka village dam, Small Mus-Allah mountain peak, Longos State Farm, the Vurbitsa State Forest Station, and Sofia's Physical Culture High School were renamed for Dimitrov...
...railway stations of Shumen and Mirkovo, Panporovo summer resort and Belmeken mountain were renamed for Kolarov...
...dignities and privileges." These include ceremonial salutes (9 to 21 guns, depending on rank and custom), the use of red automobile license plates, and the right to be called Your Highness. Each prince is allowed one palace for everyday living and a second palace at a seashore or hill resort. The fattest purse goes to the Nizam of Hyderabad, fabled richest man in the world, who gets 5,000,000 rupees a year. The leanest, 192 rupees, goes to the Talukdar of Kadodia, lord of a tiny village in the Kathiawar desert...
Delivering the principal convocation speech at the inauguration of Margaret Clapp as eighth president of Wellesley College, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, yesterday said that the crisis of our age cannot be settled by a resort to arms...
...assist the beginning skiier, there are at least three types of slopes at every skiing resort. These are strangely named: the beginner's hill, the intermediate slopes, and the advanced trails. The philosophy behind these titles is one of the mysteries which have baffled sporting experts for years...