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...Steinway violinmaker pronounced her first effort the work of "a good carpenter," she went ahead with No. 2, soon began turning out instruments that were good enough to sell. Nowadays, she tries to use the same woods Stradivarius used; she gets spruce and curly maple from the mountains of Czech been seasoning since World War I, and Lombardy poplar from the crates used to ship Chianti bottles from Italy. Toughest wood of all to find is the seasoned willow that Stradivarius used for blocks to strengthen the corners and ends of his violins; Mrs. Hutchins now gets it from polo...
Party spokesmen insist that the topic is still under discussion. A four-man commission is sounding out rank-and-file reaction to Gottwald's removal. The backing and filling points up one fact: the Czechs are a careful, canny and slow-moving people. Unlike neighboring Hungary, Poland or East Germany, Czechoslovakia has few outspoken malcontents and no likelihood of an uprising. The party, in return, is more lenient; the Czechs are allowed a relative cultural freedom. Western books sell briskly; J. D. Salinger is currently a favorite. Western films can be seen without stigma. In Prague, Designer Zdenka Bauer...
More fascinating even than the Czech Charleston is the country's ideological twist between Moscow and the Albania-China faction. Officially, Czechoslovakia backs Moscow, but Premier Antonin Novotny is an old Stalinist. Not only have the Czechs managed to keep on trading with Albania, but they have acted as Russia's representatives at Tirana since the Soviets severed diplomatic relations. Meanwhile, Prague's huge Stalin monument, which Novotny had promised to destroy, still stands. Some Prague wags suggest a solution for that: paint the monument black and rename it the Patrice Lumumba memorial...
Last month the amateurish blue-shirted militiamen outside Guantánamo were replaced by 3,500 spit-and-polish young troops in starched fatigues. Many of them, apparently, were trained in three Czech-and-Soviet-commanded camps nestled in the hills above Guantánamo. More than 25,000 Cuban troops now surrounded the Guantánamo area...
...pattern. The only difficulty with the book is that the reader occasionally loses the main thread of events amidst a welter of seemingly unconnected incidents. He feels as if he were viewing a kaleidoscope--at one moment he is reading about negotiations in Moscow and at the next about Czech troops in Chelyabinsk. Yet this disconnectedness gives an accurate impression of the complexity of the Russian situation and the confusion of British policy in dealing with it. The six-page epilogue draws together the main themes of the work in a beautiful summary...