Word: yugoslavia
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...troika has its own worries, however, and no doubt also took to the rails to coordinate strategy for the conference of Communist chiefs scheduled to convene in Budapest next month. With Rumania and Yugoslavia boycotting the conference, and with a new and perhaps more freewheeling regime in Czechoslovakia, Ulbricht and Gomulka are left as the Kremlin's most trusted friends in its flagging campaign to isolate the renegade Chinese Communists. Any flop in the Budapest meeting, which is designed as a prelude to a larger assemblage in Moscow, would be a serious setback for Russian foreign policy...
...Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the church's chief agency for rooting out heresy. Although a kindly man in person, Ottaviani was a symbol of repressive Catholic conservatism and a leader of the stand-fast minority at the Second Vatican Council. Ottaviani's successor is Yugoslavia's Franjo Cardinal Seper, 62, the Archbishop of Zagreb. As his country's unofficial primate since 1960, Seper (pronounced "shaper") has pursued a course of accommodation with Tito; at the recent Synod of Bishops in Rome he was overwhelmingly elected by his fellow prelates to head its commission...
...official cars. In Rumania, where Romînia Libera reports that an "astronomical" amount is spent on chauffeured cars, the government has ordered their use limited to top-echelon people. Rumania is also launching a drive to find "useful work" for the displaced chauffeurs and, along with Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, is trying to sell the cars to the bosses to console them for the loss of their drivers. As a result, many a party panjandrum who once arrived at embassy cocktail parties with his chauffeur, now drives up himself-or comes by streetcar or on foot until he can learn...
...other East European TV establishments, Poland is cutting away from Soviet television imports and is filling its tube with U.S. shows. Dr. Kildare is so popular in Poland that Communist Party meetings are no longer held on Wednesday nights. Perry Mason argues his cases in eloquent Serbo-Croatian in Yugoslavia. Rawhide rides hard in Rumania, and Alfred Hitchcock is a chilling success in Bulgaria...
While they were still going strong, newsreels put many an unforgettable moment on film. During the 1929 crash, a bankrupt broker was shown plunging to his death from a Manhattan office building. Newsreel cameras recorded the assassination of Yugoslavia's King Alexander in Marseille in 1934, as well as the death of the assassin at the hands of a mob. The Normandy invasion was photographed in all its awesome spectacle and desperate tension. And then there was that time a newsreel man confronted John D. Rockefeller Sr. "Say something," said the newsman, grinding away. Said Rockefeller: "God bless Standard...