Word: sofia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Noisy Interruption. There were even more serious turbulences in Bulgaria. The country's Red boss Todor Zhivkov was back from his trip to Moscow scarcely 24 hours when he told the opening session of a party congress in Sofia that Premier Anton Yugov, ex-Dictator Vulko Chervenkov, and six other bigwigs were being fired as Stalinists. Yugov was slapped under house arrest, accused of ordering the executions of "numerous honest and innocent comrades." Only three years ago, the Bulgarian regime had tried to emulate the Chinese "great leap forward" and also had fallen flat on its face...
...time: April 1920. The place: a shabby eighth-floor attic in Moscow, where Yuli Martov, a leader of the defeated Social Democrats, is in hiding. As he is cooking supper on a tiny stove, he is interrupted by Sofia Markovna, a secret emissary from Lenin. Martov and Lenin were once the closest friends when both were Social Democrats, but since Lenin turned Bolshevik and later seized power, Martov is Lenin's bitterest enemy. Whispers the messenger: kindly Lenin, taking pity on his old buddy, has arranged to whisk Martov out of town before he is arrested. A seat...
...bright blue waterfront, a Roman amphitheater where Gennaro-patron saint of Naples-achieved his exaltation simply because a pride of lions refused to eat him. It now has a municipal slogan: "What a woman we have exported." Romilda's health was poor, and her breasts went dry. Little Sofia-the ph was inserted later because it seems more exotic to the Italian eye-was turned over to a hired wet nurse. From a bed swarming with six grandchildren, the wet nurse last week reminisced: "Sophia was the ugliest child I ever saw in my life. She was so ugly...
...better confine your choice to something extra cathedral. Like, perhaps, Sviatoslav Richter, three of whose recordings have recently been released by American firms. Columbia has hit upon the dubious practice of recording concert performances: Richter's Carnegie Hall recital of five Beethoven sonatas last year, and a performance in Sofia, Bulgaria of Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Mr. Richter's playing is not enchanced by an impromptu counterpoint of mid-winter colds, thumping tape-recorders, passing BMT trains (in the Carnegie Hall record), and strange, unidentifiable Eastern European noises (in the Sofia one). (The Beethoven recital...
...pitcher for the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League. Satch showed that there was still plenty of spring left in his ancient arm; in four innings, he allowed the Seattle Rainiers three scratch hits, gave up two unearned runs. ¶Before 30,000 Bulgarian fans packed into Sofia's Vasil Levski stadium, Russia's Valery Brumel. 19, bettered his own world record for the high jump, cleared 7 ft. 4½in. at the world student games. Brumel's old world mark of 7 ft. 44 in. was set in July at the U.S.-Russian meet...