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...squad, in amassing their largest score in one game, gained revenge for its earlier 4-3 defeat at the hands of the same Czech team. Bill Cleary, ex-Harvard star, scored his third goal of the tournament during the contest...
...dealing with central Europe. His biggest coup took place in 1948, when he masterminded the Communist seizure of Czechoslovakia. While maintaining a smiling relationship with President Benes, Zorin gathered together a team of Moscow-trained Communists and helped to organize the "action committees" that bored into every section of Czech life. After the coup he returned to Moscow, but was back in Prague three years later to supervise the liquidation of Rudolf Slansky and a score of other top Czech Communists on Stalin's suspect list...
Dulles' proposals got no welcome from either side; the State Department's follow-through was woefully inadequate, and the Czech arms deal shortly afterwards queered everything. But the urgency of a solution increases, and so does the difficulty, as the weeks go by. The subject is now high on the agenda of the U.S. National Security Council, and the British Foreign Office last week called home eight Middle East ambassadors for talks. In Jordan, Arab refugees from Palestine, spurred by Egyptian and Saudi Arabian agitators (and also by Communist agents) rioted in the streets and smashed...
Untouched by professional coaching. Dave Stephens has copied his style from the great Czech Emil Zatopek. During the World Youth Festival at Bucharest in 1953, the two men became friends. An unspectacular performer at Bucharest, Stephens came home and began to break Australian records right and left. Often the races were run in foul weather, and often Dave ran barefoot. He could not afford track shoes...
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, for whom the play was created, try very hard to bring the inert bulk of the comedy to life. They assume foreign accents--he, something that sounds like German and is supposed to be Czech; she, cockney--they hurry about the stage a if they were really not more than sixty years old, and they argue about what code to use in their mind reading act as thought the subject held great interest. But, in the end, the Lunts too lose out to mediocre writing. The backstage life of vaudeville performers has so often been...