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EASTERN EUROPE is at last beginning to grab its share of the tourist business. Budapest's reputation as a swinging capital has penetrated the Iron Curtain. Czechoslovakia offers a Mozart festival, and of late has become downright comradely toward tourists. Says Harvard Square Travel Agent Vladimir Kazan, a Czech-born American citizen who was once jailed in Prague: "From my cellmates, I understand the country is cultivating good restaurants, picturesque cities and reasonably good hotels. I hear they're really catering to Americans." Despite his own unhappy experience, Kazan heartily recommends a visit. Soviet Russia, this year celebrating...
...Czech-born Kazan-Komarek has been held in Prague on charges of treason and espionage since last October...
Died. Jan Antonin Bata, 67, Czech-born "world shoe king" when he was boss (1932-39) of the sprawling (now 80 plants in 67 countries), well-heeled (annual sales: some $400 million) producer of cheap shoes founded by Half Brother Thomas, but who in 1962 was relegated to an outpost in Brazil after Nephew Thomas Jr. of Canada's Bata, Ltd., won control of the family empire in a spectacular court fight; of a heart attack; in São Paulo, Brazil...
...have a breather between controversial sessions. Sometimes "problem" ministers proved to be just the contrary. Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister Vaclav David, after probing for areas in which the U.S. and Czechoslovakia could expand trade, turned willingly to discussion of one longstanding problem. The Czechs, who in the past have refused safe exit to Czech-born U.S. citizens traveling in their country, agreed to cease the harassment. It was a small detail, but through normal diplomatic channels it could have taken weeks. Rusk and David came to agreement in less than an hour...
Married. Betsy Blair, 39, red-haired cinemactress who played Marty's schoolteacher girl friend; and Karel Reisz, 37, Czech-born British film director, whose credits include Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and This Sporting Life; he for the first, she for the second time (her first: Dancer Gene Kelly); in London...