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SOFT CONTACT LENSES Otto Wichterle, a Czech scientist, created the first soft contact lens in 1961, using an Erector set and a phonograph motor. Bausch & Lomb bought the rights to his process for a reported $3 million...
...situation, but a much more entertaining one for us, the readers. Nor does he inspire much pity in us, so crusty and self-sufficient does he seem. The novel is written from Bech's own point of view, and opens on the grizzled, still prodigiously randy gentleman touring the Czech Republic with lissome, admiring dissidents hanging from his gnarled elbows...
...installment of the saga show an older and grumpier Bech still worrying about his long bouts of writer's block and finding ways of getting away from his desk whenever he can. On a State Department-sponsored junket to communist Prague in the mid-1980s, Bech meets dissident Czech writers and begins to envy them for living in a place where literature is considered important enough to suppress...
After the decision was made to invite Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to join NATO, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright praised this as one of America's greatest foreign policy achievements because of the security it would guarantee in the event that "Russia might revert to its old Cold War foreign policy." This seems to betray either antipathy or ignorance regarding Russia and its internal politics...
...When Czech President Vaclav Havel was in Washington last month, he told MADELEINE ALBRIGHT that he had a novel idea: when his current term ends, she should become President of the Czech Republic. As Secretary of State, Albright is nominally in line for the U.S. presidency, but as a foreign-born citizen, she cannot hold the office. Not so in the Czech Republic, where Albright was born. The idea of Albright's succeeding Havel, who has been found to have lung cancer, was being touted by Havel's friends in a Czech magazine called The New Presence...