BULGARIA: Rampant Lion

Few pedagogues can fix a broken-down automobile. Last week, on a lonely stretch of road 30 miles from Sofia, Bulgarian capital, two professors from the American College at Samakov tinkered for three hours over a balky motor car, became greasy, then filthy and finally exhausted, lackadaisical.

So dispirited were they that when another motor drew up alongside, neither pedagogue noted anything familiar or remarkable in .the appearance of the driver, a slim young man with an ineffectual black mustache which inspired no confidence.

Queried he: "Can I help you?"

"We are afraid,"...

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