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...still marked "not valid" for travel. Bulgaria's capital of Sofia (pop. 700,000) is a pleasant city of broad avenues and parks, and has an Intourist-style hotel as garishly new, as poorly heated as Moscow's latest. Bulgaria itself remains Europe's second most backward nation (after Albania). Its farms are 95% collectivized, and outside observers concede that it is perhaps the one satellite nation where many peasants feel, if not happy, at least better off than before the Reds took over...
Colin Wilson likes to go on intellectual safaris, bag a great book and scatter the author's thoughts among the simple natives. His favorite hunting ground is Shawland, where he stalks the Abominable Superman, and he never tires of preaching the first Shavian commandment, which can be read backward or forward: God is the Life Force-the Life Force...
...which begins Feb. 29. As a clinching argument, Bourguiba recalled that even Mohammed, when inconveniently overtaken by Ramadan on his march to Mecca, counseled his soldiers: "Break the fast, and you will be stronger to confront the enemy." Today's enemy for Tunisia, said Bourguiba, is the "humiliating backward condition of our country." It remained to be seen whether progressive-minded President Bourguiba, for all his political strength, could break a custom of centuries...
...India's borders. Nehru told a crowd in Ernakulam that "if any group in India in a moment of crisis forgets that its basic loyalty is to India, then that group does not represent India, whatever else it might be." The Kerala Communists, he said, are a "very backward party...
...Fabulous Fifties (CBS, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). A backward look that takes in a talented team of entertainers who lent the decade distinction. Guests include Jackie Gleason, Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Shelley Berman, Nichols and May, Photographer Richard Avedon, and the playwriting duo of Betty Comden and Adolph Green...