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Tape-Recorder Youth. In Sofia, nearly 6,000 colorful, balconied high-rise apartments stand in bright contrast to the peeling Soviet barracks of the past. And the crowds that throng the Boulevard Russki, though dressed for the most part in shoddy, overexpensive suits from the nightmarish ZUM department store, are clearly well fed on their beloved dobrudza-the white bread that provides 60% of the average Bulgarian's caloric intake...
...Gautama Buddha tries to crowd everything in Buddhist literature into one elephantine moving picture. The parallels between Japan's first bid for a slice of the supermovie market and the Biblical pageantry of Samuel Bronston and Dino de Laurentiis are numbing: skyscraper temples to sinister gods, unseen choirs zum-zumming on the sound track, corps of nimble nautch dancers in every other reel. And when it comes to uplifting the masses or spreading the gospel, Buddha's producers are no more missionary than the others. They...
Konrad Adenauer, in his own tongue, has issued the following statement: "Es freut mich sehr Ihnen zum Geburtstag Glueck zu wuenschen," adding, "Ninety is much too young to quit." His Majesty King Gustav Adolf VI, providing for the time lag, writes "God morgon! God afton! God natt! Ingen orsak." And Carl Sandburg, who is only eighty-five, comments that "You have completed your Prairie Years. On to the War Years...
Rehder and Twaddell's faithful transcription of Mrs. Reiff's remarks has undoubtedly the modern German Volksgeist encaptured. And that is a major service. Zum wohl, die Herrnl
...Bundestag. Many German and Allied officials hope, probably in vain, for a "great coalition" of conservatives and Socialists so that German rearmament can be launched by bipartisan decision. German opposition to rearmament has decreased greatly in the last six months. There has been what the Germans call "Zeit zum umdenken"-time to think it over. General Eisenhower's declaration that the German soldier never lost his honor soothed much injured pride. Oddly enough, Neo-Nazi Ernst Remer (TIME, May 21) has also been helpful. A German veteran explained how: "When that scum Remer started lambasting rearmament, we soldiers figured...