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...Shade. "Character is fate." The Heraclitean precept has been mislaid by a generation of moviemakers more concerned on the whole with their medium than with Man. In this resolutely ordinary yet oddly powerful little picture, a Czech director named Jiří (pronounced Yershee) Weiss, a British scriptwriter named David Mercer
LOVES OF A BLONDE. Czech Director Milos Forman, 34, explores the delights and dilemmas of youth in this touching tale of a hayseed girl and her brief encounter with a hipster from Prague...
...Czech farm hand (he was born Jan Ludwig Hoch), Maxwell left school at ten, left his family's one-room Carpathian mountain home at 16 to join the underground fighting Hitler. Later he made his way to Britain, joined the British army as a private, left as a captain. With the profits of some shrewd postwar trading in German scientific manuscripts, he bought Pergamon in 1951 for $36,400, cajoled experts from all over the world into writing scientific tomes for him. Fluent in nine languages including Russian, he won a virtual corner on rights to Soviet scientific works...
...Czech government became aware of Kazen-Komarek's whereabouts and occupation when he applied for a visa in June. He had planned to fly to Czechoslavakia to visit his mother, who was ill, but later decided against...
Kazen-Komarek was a passenger on the Soviet governmental airline, Aeroflot, when his plane made an unscheduled stop in Prague. He was taken from the plane and arrested for "treasonous activities" against the Czech government in the forties and early fifties...