Word: czech
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Djakarta he assailed President Eisenhower; in Baghdad he conferred with officials of the Russian, Czech, Bulgarian and Yugoslav missions. In Communist Yugoslavia he told interviewers: "It is our wish to see and perhaps apply Yugoslav experiences in Cuba"; in New Delhi he told the pro-Communist weekly Blitz: "We have on our soil a North American base. It is easy to shake off Batista and the landlords, but not American bases." In Ceylon he told newsmen: "Don't believe the American press." In Karachi, where he spent 55 minutes of a scheduled one-hour interview fulminating against "American agents...
Died. Bohuslav Martinu, 68, Czech composer and onetime visiting professor of composition at Princeton, who turned out a flood of operas (The Miracle of Our Lady), symphonies (Fantaisies Symphoniques) and chamber music, saw one of his operas (The Marriage) become a U.S. TV hit; near Basel, Switzerland...
With the bulk of the 17,000 delegates coming from the Soviet bloc-many having their first look outside the Iron Curtain-the festival organizers did their best to make them feel that they had never left home. The Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian and Rumanian delegates were quartered in tent cities five miles from Vienna, closely guarded by other "delegates," and whisked back and forth each day in buses, some of them with Moscow license plates...
...Crimson hockey stars--Bill and Bob Cleary, and Bob Owen--continue to lead the U.S. national hockey team in the World Championships now being held at Prague, Czechoslovakia. A fourth varsity alumnus, Bob McVey, is now out of action with a back injury suffered in a collision with a Czech player ten days...
...tough Finland squad at Tampere, tallying two goals in a 5-3 U.S. triumph. Bill Clearly added one marker in a game featuring the "gentle" American style of play against the more rugged Finnish brand. Three days later, Bob Cleary scored once in a losing effort against a Czech team...