Word: sofias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sofia. Bulgaria, after breezing through the early rounds of an East European tournament, a team of undefeated Polish pugilists took on a squad of crack Soviet boxers in the finals, turned out to be unexpectedly aggressive satellites, and clobbered the Russians, eight bouts...
...Sofia Loren (38, 24, 37), 19, is the youngest of Italy's screen queens. Insiders give some of the credit for her rapid rise to her harddriving, redheaded Neapolitan mother, who hovers incessantly in the background, pushing her daughter to the front. Honey-blonde Sofia got her start as Miss Rome, went on to dramatic school and a modeling job. She has a thick Neapolitan accent, and in the sultry Roman evenings, loves to turn on the record player, throw off her clothes and dance...
...international film festival in Berlin, all proceedings stopped as three of the world's most sightly actresses-Italy's Sofia Loren, Hollywood's Yvonne (The Captain's Paradise) de Carlo, and Rome's Gina (Beat the Devil) Lollobrigida-got together for the photographers...
Confident that a watchful ear can pick up real news beats, Turner listens for statements of government policy, reports on domestic affairs in other countries, and foreign attitudes about America (on Radio Sofia, "you actually hear them calling us louses"). Most of all, he tries to keep up with the latest Communist line for his program. "Listeners for years have heard commentators discuss Red propaganda," he says, "but very few have heard it as it comes in English direct from Moscow." Whenever he can, Turner juxtaposes the facts of a situation as he knows it with the Soviet version. Although...
...Premier, but is the real boss of Communist East Germany. From Budapest came the Jew-purging Jew, Matyas Rakosi, who used Stalin's purge-trial technique to install himself in control of postwar Hungary. From Bucharest came Premier Gheorghiu-Dej, the icy-eyed nemesis of Ana Pauker. From Sofia came Premier Vulko Chervenkov, so unimaginatively obedient that even the suspicious men of the Kremlin are said to have no worries about his loyalty. From Prague came President Klement Gottwald, who neatly disposed of Moscow-groomed Rudolf Slansky before Slansky could dispose of him. From Warsaw came Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky...