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...rushed up to their perch and hurled them to the street, where they were trampled to death. Though the nationalists seemed to be maiming one another at first, the surging street crowds soon began blaming the bloodshed on the British. Two British women were killed by a Czech-made bomb planted by a servant at a cocktail party. British troops with tommy guns guarded European children at school and European swimmers bathing within the shark nets in the harbor...
...tall Pennsylvanian Czech blamed his defense for that poor performance. The coach made his point by asking, "Can anybody here play cornerback?" He conceded, however, that his defenders were up against the man with "the greatest arm ever" in the Jets' quarterback Joe Namath...
Comrade Majorová is also concerned about some of the polar bears who turn up on crowded Czech trams and in train compartments. "People in dirty work clothes should not get on public transport, because they will soil other people's clothes," she writes. "In the train, don't fall asleep on a stranger's knee." Nor should comradely formalities be overdone. Don't, for instance, shout the reverent Communist greeting, "Honor to labor!" to a friend who is sunbathing on the beach: such enthusiasm, she warns, "could appear ironic." More important, when greeting a woman...
...lucrative travel agency catering to Harvard students, Vladimir Kazan, 42, qualified for VIP treatment when he visited Moscow last October at the cordial invitation of Intourist, the Soviet state travel bureau. In fact, the Russians picked up the bill for his entire stay. But Kazan, a former Czech who had emigrated to the U.S. in 1955 and become a citizen, discovered that Communist hospitality can still be highly uneven. Returning to the U.S. via Paris, Kazan's Soviet Aeroflot jetliner made an unscheduled stop in Prague for what Czech authorities said was a "radar breakdown." When it took...
Just why the Communists wanted Kazan so badly is not clear. In 1951, his name-originally Vladimir Komarek-had been linked with a spy ring at the trial of Associated Press Newsman William N. Oatis, who later served two years in a Czech prison on a trumped-up espionage charge. The Czechs also claimed that Kazan once had a role in a gaudy murder in which a secret agent, supposedly firing through his raincoat pocket, killed a policeman in Prague. But when Kazan-Komarek came to trial last week before a three-man tribunal in Prague's municipal courthouse...