Word: sofia
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...theoretical range of 1,500 miles. Designed, but still dependent on solution of fuel problems, are 3,500-mile rockets. Other rocket-line distances from the African girdle: Khartoum to Suez, 950 miles; Kenya to Moscow, 4,000 miles; Lake Chad to Munich, 2,200 miles; Khartoum to Sofia, 1,800 miles...
...Istanbul Woman's College, the American College of Sofia, the American School for Boys at Baghdad, the American University of Beirut, International College (also at Beirut), Athens College, Damascus College in Syria (founded in September...
...presence of U.S. political representative Maynard Barnes and by the fact that Bulgaria needs U.S. economic aid. For the second time, Moscow urged the Bulgarian Government to throw out Barnes; for the second time, the Government regretfully refused (and Dimitroff was promptly summoned to Moscow). On other issues, Sofia has been more obedient; it has dropped its old territorial claims against Comrade Tito's Yugoslavia (for Mother Russia wants a united satellite family), has instead joined the general Balkan campaign for hunks of Greek territory...
...Meaning of Friendship. Turkey and Iran were still the biggest gap in the Soviet Union's two-continent super-security system. By exerting pressure for concessions, Russia hoped to get the same kind of "friendly" governments in Ankara and Teheran as she had in Sofia and half a dozen other capitals-governments that would see Russian reason...
Married. Commander George Howard Earle, 55, former New Dealing Governor of Pennsylvania, later disputatious Minister to Bulgaria (in 1941 a Nazi in Sofia complained that Earle conked him with a champagne bottle), wartime naval attaché in Turkey; and Jacqueline Marthe Jermine Sacre, 23, Paris-born daughter of a Belgian railroad executive in Turkey; he for the second time (four sons by a previous marriage), she for the first; in Istanbul. Said he: "I came back because I adore Jacqueline." Said she: "I love George. I knew he would come back...