Word: yugoslavian
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...look at her library and read any book I wished. In addition to other books, I noticed the works of Mark Twain, Carlyle, Turgeney, and Hardy. The living room was decorated with unusual fine taste and among the pictures were her mother's portrait, the autographed picture of the Yugoslavian king--at whose palace Miss Helen Keller and her party were entertained--Alexander Graham Bell's effigy, Miss Sullivan's picture, and Tagore's autographed picture...
...Jaunty Broadway Showman Mike Todd announced that he is planning to film Tolstoy's War and Peace next year in Yugoslavia and that Dictator Marshal Tito has agreed to lend 70,000 Yugoslavian troops as extras. A few days later, David O. (Gone With the Wind) Selznick chuckled as he reminded the world that he and Writer Ben Hecht were planning the very same film. Said Selznick: "I, too, have been contacted by the Yugoslavian government. However, I doubt that Tito's troops are uniformed and equipped in the manner of the armies of Bonaparte and Alexander...
...first time since their dramatic divorce in 1948, Russia and Marshal Tito's Communist Yugoslavia agreed last week to resume doing business. In Belgrade the two governments signed a short-term agreement, bartering Russian crude oil, manganese, cotton and newsprint for Yugoslavian ethyl alcohol, tobacco, meat and hemp. Tito had also hoped to get some wheat for Yugoslavia, but the Russians, who have been having serious trouble with grain production (TIME. June 14), confessed that they had none to spare...
Competitor Cramer, accompanied by his wife and a Dutch co-driver and driving a Willys-Overland sedan, started from Athens, negotiated the relatively crude roads of Greece and Yugoslavia with little difficulty (unlike another Athens starter, Englishman Harry Sutcliffe, whose little Morris was badly shaken up by a large Yugoslavian sheepdog that rammed it head-on). Professor Cramer's trouble came in France. In the mountainous stretch between Le Puy and Valence, where swirling snows blinded drivers two years ago, the Cramers fell victim to the commonest of all traffic hazards, bungled directions, when they were sent down...
Prestige is also a consideration in negotiations. In World War I, several hundred thousand Italians were killed fighting Austria for possession of Trieste. And on the Yugoslavian side, Tito's troops stormed the city in 1945, occupying it for 40 days. Past casualties have played a large role in elections in both countries...