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...Yugoslavia's JAT flies Western-built aircraft on international runs. Pilots like to dive at airports on landing. Stewardesses tend to be dark, curvaceous; they serve slivovitz with abandon. The airline rates poor on ground efficiency, but Belgrade's airport is modern and relatively well served by taxis. The airport restaurant is mediocre at best...
Martin also leveled an attack on the "unrealistic control of American tennis" that is exercised by the International Lawn Tennis Federation. Noting that "different nations have different philosophies," he said that at the I.L.T.F.'s meeting in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, on July 8, he will introduce an amendment that would allow each national association "to establish for itself rules of play, categories of players, and rules for the conduct, promotion and scheduling of tournaments...
Memories of Model A. Henry Ford would like to break into the small but growing Communist automotive market. His company's subsidiaries in Europe already sell cars and trucks to Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, Rumania and Bulgaria. For their part, the Russians need more Western help in developing their car-and-truck industry. Fiat is putting up a huge auto plant in the Soviet city of Togliatti-which Ford toured last week-but production is two years behind schedule...
Brush Strokes. The film's story is simple, at least in synopsis. Marko (Jacques Charrier) is the leader of the Ustachi, a group of Croatian anarchists who made forays from Hungary into Yugoslavia before World War I. Winter Wind deals with the particular events leading up to the group's assassination of Alexander I and the French foreign minister in Marseille in 1934. But Jancsó has relatively little interest in the incident itself or in the characters of the people who instigated it. He is, instead, obsessed with illustrating the forces that drove the individuals involved...
...would have abided by the guidelines of the Geneva Convention for a referendum in Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh would have won, and we'd have a Yugoslavia in Southeast Asia-which might be too conservative for you," he said...