Word: czech
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contest for fashion photographers (though he had never taken a fashion picture before). He married an English girl, became a British subject. Last year the Sadovys moved to Paris, set up living quarters in a trailer. When LIFE needed an extra hand in Budapest, Sadovy's knowledge of Czech, Polish and German, plus his excellent shots of Moroccan fighting a year ago, gave him the assignment. The troublesome part of the job in Budapest, he found, was that "the tears kept running down my face and I had to keep wiping them away...
Death of a Scoundrel (RKO Radio) often looks suspiciously like a take-off on the bawdy life and gaudy death of Serge Rubinstein. The hero is a fellow named Clementi Sabourin (George Sanders), a bouncy Czech who seems to have spent his early years less on the level than under the rose. At any rate, as the camera finds him, Sanders is enthusiastically engaged in selling his own brother to the secret police in return for a passage to America. Arrived in New York, he steals a rich man's wallet from the tramp (Yvonne de Carlo) who stole...
...airport, among them, it was reported, Russia's First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan and such wanted Hungarian notables as ex-Premier Hegedus and AVH Boss Piros. But, as the reports of Russian troop movements firmed, as rebel center Györ was cut off from Budapest, as Czech radio stations jammed the rebel stations, the Hungarians suddenly knew that their worst fears were confirmed. They had been tricked...
...industrial town 66 miles west of Budapest. At Pecs (pop. 87,000) in the south one rebel radio station was heard broadcasting military orders, indicating that a sizable part of the Hungarian army had gone over to the rebels. Miskolc (pop. 136,000), near the Czech border, Hungary's second most important industrial center, fell to the rebels at week's end. At the village of Magyarovar, 15 miles from the Austrian border, security police shot 75 people, wounded 200 others, when local farmers showed resistance. The village was relieved by rebel forces led by a rebel commander...
Lack of press criticism of the Czech Communist government and the Soviet Union...