Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once upon a time, Gypsy Rose Lee was known for her ability to tease more than she stripped. More recently she has made her name and fortune as a teller of tales. Last week in London, she told of vacationing recently in Yugoslavia when, at the wheel of a rented Rolls-Royce, she collided with a motorcycle on a winding road overlooking the Adriatic Sea. To her astonishment, recalled Gypsy, deadpan, the rider and his passenger high-tailed it for the woods, abandoning their machine. Later Gypsy asked a Yugoslav official why the wild ones had acted so wildly...
...settled for a Turkish meal of goat cheese, pilaf and kuzu firin (roast lamb). Too soon, it was time to head for the airport and a performance in Salonika, Greece. Among the concerts still ahead on the Philharmonic's world tour: 18 in Russia, five in Poland and Yugoslavia. By the time it returns in October, the Philharmonic will have seen ten weeks of touring, played 29 cities in 17 countries...
YUGOSLAV BOND PAYMENTS on $25 million worth of dollar bonds, in default since 1939, will begin soon with $500,000 annual payments under "temporary arrangement." Yugoslavia seeks to restore its credit rating so it can borrow privately in U.S. money market...
...There is no sense denying that there are great differences in the standards of living of the Polish people and those of many other European countries," said Adam Szpunar in a talk on "The social and economic conditions in Poland and Yugoslavia," last night at the third public session of the Harvard Summer School International Seminar...
...speaker, Stanko Grozdanich, legal counsel of the Yugoslavian trade unions; stressed Yugoslavia's wish to preserve its independence and to maintain relations with all countries. "As civilization grows, countries actually become increasingly dependent upon one another," he noted...