Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sigmund did other research at Heidelberg, Paris, Cologne ("I worked best in Cologne; Paris was lovely, Cologne was duller") and in the summer went to Tunisia for a student meeting. "The Russians were terribly active. One fellow constantly took notes on everything, even on rug factories." Then came Yugoslavia and a seminar on the unification of the student world. The Chinese were there in full force ("Their leader spoke perfect English learned on a U.S. air force base during the war"), and one of the Russian "student editors" who visited the United States recently was a member of the Soviet...
...Finns still joke about their position; "We are a bee in the pants of the Soviet Union; they outnumber us fifty to one, but we put up a better fight." But, lacking the economic independence of Poland and Yugoslavia, they cannot make a break with Russia. The path they tread is narrow indeed...
...Stable) and Congresswoman (from Connecticut, 1943-47), Clare Luce, 55, served as U.S. Ambassador to Italy for 3½ eventful years-1953-56. During her service in Rome, Communism's threat to Italy was decisively broken, and she helped settle the explosive old quarrel between Italy and Yugoslavia over Trieste...
...Students shuffling under the eucalyptus leafed arches chanted in unison: "Neither internationalism nor Communism but Arab nationalism." At the municipal stadium a festive crowd roared as desert riders staged a camel race. Thus, as their hero arrived from Cairo this week with his guest and fellow neutralist, Tito of Yugoslavia, the people of Nasser's northern province (pop. 4,000,000) began celebrating the first anniversary of the merger of their country with Egypt in the United Arab Republic...
Clearly not having the time of his life, Author William Saroyan sailed for a film assignment in Yugoslavia, disclosed a little human comedy all his own: "I owe $30,000 in back income taxes. I don't have anything except old clothes." In fact, he added, "I need about $200,000 to get on my feet"-and unless he gets it, he might stay abroad the rest of his life...