Word: slovenia
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From Austria, only a massive range of mountains and a four-dollar visa (easily obtainable) separate the American citizen from Yugoslavia. Near the frontier, the Loiblpass rises like an angry snake, symbolic of Tito's political machinations over the last eight years; but on the other side, Slovenia, one of the seven federated states, stretches into a timid plain...
...reluctant to make the long and costly trek to the cities; and those who are attracted by new industrial centers often return home because the factories tend to expand too quickly while raw material sources remain meagre or distant. The larger deposits of coal and iron in Serbia and Slovenia, however, have made a speedier development of heavy industry there possible...
Chubby, slick-haired Frank John Yankovic, 34, has had a way with old-fashioned polkas ever since he got his first accordion from his Slovenia-born parents at the age of nine. But he has also had some ideas of his own. Since he organized his own outfit more than ten years ago, he has turned out polka versions of popular tunes and folk songs, besides playing such polka-circuit standards as My Wife Is Happy and Hurray Slovenes...
Last spring throughout Slovenia church collections were banned. Churchgoers, like early Christians, throw offerings on the altar. A priest told me: "Nevertheless, the churches are more crowded than they have ever been. The people sing their hearts out; you should hear them. They get a great lift out of coming to church...
...Minister, is a 40-year-old former schoolteacher from Ljubljana, in Slovenia. He joined the party in 1928, went to Russia in 1933 and taught the history of the Comintern at Sverdlovsk University. When he talks, his face is completely deadpan. It is hard to believe that he could regard a normal human emotion as anything but a degrading weakness. With his scholarly eyeglasses, small stature and sober, meticulous clothes, Kardelj is a patent imitation of Molotov, the iron functionary. Kardelj had his toes broken in prison by the police of the late King Alexander, and he still walks awkwardly...