Word: transylvania
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brings some impressive credentials, if not empirical expertise, to his task. He is bright, cynical, multilingual and only 26, a vintage revolutionary age. Asked his nationality, he answers, "When?" Son of an orange importer, he was born in 1942 in a Hungarian enclave in what was then Rumanian-ruled Transylvania. He was raised in Italy, polished at the London School of Economics, worked for CBS News in Eastern Europe, later joined what he describes as a "consulting agency," whose chief clients were oil companies. He traveled in the Middle East, evaluating the stability of-governments in the area...
...little else. In obscure acronyms, the cables announce that GOI (the Government of India, or Ireland, or Italy, depending on the date line somewhere in the hieroglyphics at the top of the page) has just taken the following action, or that GOT (the Government of Tanzania, or Turkey, or Transylvania) is about to take the following action, unless USG (backwards for the Government of the United States) does something about it. Sooner or later, the faithful cable reader gets the idea that the governments he reads about in the cables are entities that have an existence of their own, quite...
Traveling fashion exhibits tour the mountains of Transylvania and other remote areas to bring the message to peasant crones in babushkas. Even in Bulgaria, the most retarded nation of the bloc, the party journal Partien Zhi-vot recently reasoned: "We must not lag behind the more advanced countries in being attractively attired. Foreigners judge the superiority of our socialist way of life not only from our factories, building programs and roads, but also from the outward appearance of our people...
...Rose was born in Meridian, Miss., with little else but aspirations. As a boy he picked cotton in the fields at 500 a day. His father died when he was ten. He drove soft-drink trucks and plowed fields to earn the money to go to Kentucky's Transylvania College, where he majored in philosophy and went on to get a bachelor of divinity degree in 1946. For the next three years he taught philosophy and religion there, and preached at the same time as an ordained minister in the Disciples of Christ. Nine years after graduating...
Emotional Host. Home last week after five months covering Europe, Andrica confessed that his greatest pleasure was a trip to his native Radna (renamed Lipova II) in western Transylvania, now a part of Communist Rumania. There he played emotional host to a procession of townspeople who had not forgotten him: "I am the son of John the carpenter." "I am the granddaughter of Pavel of the green...