Todor Zhivkov to 1988, Bulgaria won an unprecedented 153 Olympic medals and numerous European and world competitions in sports as diverse as volleyball, rhythmic gymnastics and wrestling. Dissent was punished under Zhivkov's rule. The CSS was a feared tool of control, and overt opposition largely stayed underground until the late 1980s. In 1978, the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated in London by an agent who stabbed him with an umbrella tip which implanted a very small ricin ball. According to former KGB general Oleg Kalugin, this was requested by Zhivkov and either performed by the KGB or it assisted the CSS;
Tip on a Dead Jockey arrested at the scene of the crime. The thankful authorities elect not to punish Lloyd, who returns to Phyllis' open arms. At one stage, Orson Welles was going to direct the film. According to MGM records the film earned $400,000 in the US and Canada and $650,000 elsewhere resulting in a loss of $886,000. Tip on a Dead Jockey Tip on a Dead Jockey is a 1957 film drama directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Taylor and Dorothy Malone. It is based on "The New Yorker" 1954 short story by Irwin Shaw. Phyllis Tredman is shocked when husband Lloyd,