Word: yugoslavian
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...relative freedom at the Yugoslavian border just irritates the wound caused by Yugoslavia's cutting itself from the Soviet bloc soon after the Revolution of 1941-5. For, unlike in China, were the amount of independence from Moscow and the effects of this independence cannot be ascertained, in Yugoslavia Western tourists can see for themselves the development of an independent communist system, a phenomenon that runs strictly counter to Marxist theory...
These people, all of them in medical profession and all of them recently graduated from Yugoslavian Universities, were anything but good Communists. On the other hand, they were by no means revolutionaries. The political and economic conditions of the state seemed merely to present a subject for jokes--made funnier perhaps by a quantity of alivevitz, the Yugoslavia blum brandy...
...dusty mountain road to the Yugoslavian village of Karlovac chugged the little blue Simca. Its driver, Cleveland Press Columnist Theodore Andrica, was on an extraordinary assignment for his paper: to find Mrs. Jela Grozdanovich, sister of Press Subscriber John Golubic, a retired railroad baggageman. Andrica's mission was only partly successful. He arrived at Pavla Miskina Ulica i only to find that Golubic's 75-year-old sister had gone to the country to help some relatives harvest hay. But her daughter, Mrs. Antonia Ivkovich, was home; she and Andrica had a long and sentimental talk -in Croatian...
...runs into the thousands, and Andrica always finds plenty of people to visit. On a trip to Mala Polana, Czechoslovakia, Andrica heard about a villager who possessed the only concrete sidewalk in town, discovered an ex-Clevelander. Andrica seems in no danger of exhausting his material: in a single Yugoslavian province, Voivodina, live some 3,500 farmers and villagers with Cleveland connections...
Died. Ex-Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, 61, auto-fancying, welfare-working daughter of Rumania's Queen Marie, great-granddaughter of both Britain's Queen Victoria and Russia's Czar Alexander II, and Yugoslavian monarch from her 1922 marriage to strongman King Alexander I until his 1934 assassination; following a long illness; in London, where she had lived for 20 years, the last 15 in Tito-imposed exile...