Word: slovenia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Upper Slovenia may sound like Lower Slobbovia to the uninitiated, but all good apiculturalists know that this portion of the Alps, located in Yugoslavia, is headquarters for one of the sweetest forms of folk art ever practiced. From the early 1700s until the beginning of the 20th century, beekeeping flourished in Upper Slovenia, and mountaineers ornamented their long, flat hives with small, gaily painted panels. So beguiling are they that collectors from Switzerland, Austria and even France have lately taken to combing the hills to find them. And last week, to show their richness and variety, the Ethnographical Museum...
...that Janko Smole, president of the executive council of the Yugoslav state of Slovenia, found himself confronted with noisy objections fortnight ago in the regional legislature. He was trying to push through a bill streamlining the Slovenian health-insurance bureaucracy-for which over half of the deputies worked and thus were reluctant to see reorganized. Speaker after speaker rose to denounce Smole's proposed law. Tolerantly, the president let the deputies rant and rave, confident that when all was said, the party's will would be done as usual. But when he called for a vote, the measure...
...elected-when and how, no one quite knew. Smole himself set to work lobbying like any Western politician for enough support to get the bill passed on a second try. The shudder from such a convulsive exercise of Yugoslavia's new freedoms brought Marshal Tito himself to Slovenia for a long business lunch with Smole under the ironic guise of a "routine medical checkup." Rediscovering politics Western-style, the Slovenes were by and large delighted with themselves. "Isn't it a mess?" asked one official with a smile. "Isn't it a refreshing mess...