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...vegetables, shiny apples, bursting grapes, jams, jellies, butter and milk that Bulgaria exported in 1963 was added a growing stream of batteries, machine tools, pumps, electric hoists, pharmaceuticals and steel products. One of Bulgaria's biggest hard-currency earners is the booming Black Sea resort area at Varna known as "Golden Sands," where Bulgars and bikini-clad outlanders this season completely booked the growing hotel complex...
...Rush. And when East German tour guides get nasty, they often find their Bulgarian or Hungarian opposite numbers siding against them. A recent visitor to Varna heard a Bulgarian tourist official chew out an overofficious East German guide. "Leave the guests in peace," he snapped. "You can do what you want in your own country, but this is our country, our beach and these are our guests...
...Bulgaria last week, he seemed to lack his usual bounce. He had lost weight, the skin on his neck and face was slack, his eyes lacked sparkle. It took him a full day to recover anything like his old roadshow form. Then, in the Black Sea city of Varna (formerly called Stalin), he planted two small trees, after which he handed the shovel to startled Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. "I have helped build Communism," joked Nikita. "Now you've got to work. This isn't like writing notes." Khrushchev was visiting Moscow's earliest, most slavish European...
...live were rejudge in the cooler. Results: of 81 steers that took honors on the hoof, only 33 met the test as meat (chief disqualification: excessive fat, too little lean). The top carcass honors went to a lean-hipped 749-lb. Aberdeen-Angus, entered by Larry McKee, 17, of Varna, Ill., that had not won even an honorable mention in the ring...
...Varna Gulf, Varna Lake and the Mus-Allah lakes were renamed for Stalin...