Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when by custom almost everyone on the Continent goes on vacation at the same time. If official estimates are to be believed, fully half of West Germany's 59 million people are away from their homes. More than 50% of these have left Germany for Austria, Italy, Spain, Yugoslavia and other points south; 29 flights a week arrive in Majorca from Germany. Half of The Netherlands' 13 million people are out of their country. Some 22 million Frenchmen (46% of the population) continue to insist upon their August vacation despite government plaints that the country can no longer...
Hard Labor. Even Communist Yugoslavia now has a string of nudist camps along the Adriatic Coast for the benefit of foreign tourists. Earlier this month it also played host to the 13th World Congress of Naturalists, though not without a bit of embarrassment. The Croatian Minister for Tourism angrily canceled an appearance at the congress when informed that he was expected to show up in the buff...
...women's track and field program will include a 1,500-meter race for the first time. One contender is Vera Nikolic of Yugoslavia. During a semifinal heat of the 800 meters in 1968, Vera suddenly stopped and fled the track in tears, overcome by a broken romance. In Munich, Vera will probably compete in both the 800 and 1,500. In the former, though, gospel-singing Madeline Manning Jackson of Columbus will be trying to duplicate the gold medal she won last time in Mexico. Other U.S. hopes in women's track include Metric Miler Francie Larrieu...
When he walks, he gallops. When he eats, he gobbles down two and three full-course meals at a sitting. He wears suits made for him by a tailor in Zagreb, Yugoslavia; all dressed up, he is the picture of a Russian Deputy Minister of Power and Electricity. Bachelor Bobby does not have time for dating. He once said that when God gets ready, he will drop a girl in his lap. Most often, he rises late in a day that almost invariably ends with chess, chess, chess until dawn. Then he dozes off to the soothing swoosh...
...Decorated and handsomely subsidized by the state, Russian chess masters are the "vanguard of Communist culture." There are 4,000,000 registered players in the U.S.S.R. (compared with only 35,000 in the U.S.), and 36 of the world's 82 grand masters are Soviets (compared with 13 in Yugoslavia, eleven in the U.S., six in Argentina and six in Hungary).* Russian youths, many of whom study the game as a standard course at grade school level, discuss the Nimzo-Indian defense the way U.S. kids talk about the Dallas Cowboys' front four. So many Soviet citizens play the game...