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...University of Santa Clara. Although he never graduated, his grades were good enough to get him into Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. But after a year there, he was drafted. He served as a counterintelligence agent in Germany, where he met his wife, Joan Brauner, a Czech refugee working for the U.S. Army...
...less than 5% for most major domestic brands. "Our beer is richer, heavier, hoppier," says William Newman, 36, the founder of Wm. S. Newman Brewing (1982 sales: $103,000) in Albany. "There's simply a market out there for more distinctive beer." Some beer drinkers agree. Says Terry Czech, a roofer who lives in Schenectady, N.Y.: "I've gone several miles for a glass of Newman...
...short. For Kafka, all fantasy is rooted in the personal and the everyday: the miserable home, the suffocating office, the unconsummated affair and, below all, the stale gingerbread city of Prague. Here he was three times an outsider: a solitary, a Jew and a writer in German rather than Czech...
...friend Milan Kundera, the Czech novelist, makes a plea for "the small cultures" from the wounded heart of Central Europe...
...younger old salts set a deep-sea diving record off his native France in 1977. An odds-on favorite was a 56-year-old Aussie who was sailing the oceans when some of his rivals were playing with boats in their bathtubs. A competitor from Eastern Europe, a Czech, has written ten books on sea adventure, and applied for political asylum hi the U.S. last August...