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Last-Minute Attempt. Novotný had desperately tried to save himself at the last moment by adopting a far more conciliatory line. In his New Year's message last week, he made important concessions to Czechoslovakia's restive Slovaks and promised rebellious Czech students and writers that he would permit the use of "progressive" ideas, even if they came from the West. For added effect, he also hinted that he would let the country's economic reformers resume their experiments with profits and price incentives to get the stalled economy moving again. It was a major turnabout...
...blond, becomes the youngest national party chief in Eastern Europe. Largely educated in the Soviet Union, to which his father had migrated a few years after a brief, unhappy stay in the U.S., Dubček was an anti-Nazi partisan during World War II. Since Czechs and ethnic balances are still essential in Czechoslovakia's ruling circles, Premier Jozef Lenárt, another Slovak, will probably be pushed aside for Chief Economic Planner Oldřich Cernik, 44, a Czech who had been generally considered the front runner for Novotn...
...down a vast canyon-only to enjoy a landing as soft as his drink. In a shootout, bullets meet in mid-air and cancel each other. A henchman pulls rabbits and bouquets from his holster. Street signs are all in English, but the dialogue is laconically drawled in jawbreaking Czech. "Hands up" is the kind of phrase that can only gain in translation-particularly when the translation is "Ruky hore...
...Michelangelo Antonioni parodied the modish artsiness of fashion photography to help create the swinging London mood of Blow-Up. Italy's Gillo Pontecorvo faithfully reproduced the grainy style of newsreel footage to restage The Battle of Algiers-a pictorially harrowing exposition of war as an extension of politics. Czech Director Jiff Menzel leaped from tears to laughter in quick sequence to create the moody turmoil of Closely Watched Trains. The "undoable" film can now be done, as shown by the creditable and convincing movie versions of Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Even Proust is possible-if anyone...
...everyone is happy about the trend. Budapest shuddered with the exposure of a private casino for party big shots at Lake Balaton, where the prizes included a nude state-airline hostess, dipped in chocolate. And not long ago a Prague newspaper complained that race tracks "seduced" Czech youth, fostered "idleness, deceit and crime." But another paper wisely bet on the party. "People today have more money than ever before," it said. "You can't blame the state for wanting a slice...