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...Yugoslav Geologist Bozidar Djordjevitch had an ingenious idea. Every spring, he said, water from melting snow pours into Yugoslavia's Karst caves, compressing air that whistles out through vents in the earth's surface. Why not seal the caves and funnel the escaping air to gas turbines, which could convert it into useful energy? Djordjevitch soon had an answer: the caves are vented in too many places; they are almost impossible to seal...
...describe my novel, The Stronghold, as "mawkishly pro-Semitic" [Oct. 8]. I have heard many indignant comments from people who, as I did, found your review antiSemitic, particularly when combined with the photo you used. The skullcap in the picture is not a yarmulka; it is a Yugoslav shepherd...
Demand & Supply. The reasons behind the extraordinary use of the U.S. shows are simple. The first is public demand. Even the Yugoslav government, not known for knuckling under to popular opinion in other spheres, canceled its scrubbing of what it calls Dennis, the Naughty Boy in the face of mounting protest. The second reason: the U.S. price is right, a small fraction of the cost of producing from scratch. Which is not to say that foreign syndication is a giveaway program. Estimated annual take on the part of U.S. packagers for foreign replay rights: $75 million; and many a show...
...motivates education in America. "For the first time in my whole six years of higher education, I've had a chance to talk to a professor man to man," recalls one Salzburg graduate, accustomed to Europe's academic formality. Opinions flow so freely at Salzburg that a Yugoslav seminarian once pulled a knife on an Italian. By contrast, a Norwegian fellow spotted a German at whom he had thrown a hand grenade during World War II, and they became intellectual buddies...
...movie king as well. He has bought the famed but financially troubled Ufa studio, and last month he acquired a 50% interest in Munich's Constantin Filmverleih, the country's biggest film distributor and producer. It specializes in grinding out Wild West films in the Yugoslav mountains...