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Goodyear Playhouse presented an uneven play called Thunder of Silence, but gave star billing to an exciting new actress, Inger Stevens. Blonde, fragile and hauntingly attractive. Swedish-born Actress Stevens, 20, dominated the play in her role of a Czech refugee set down bewilderingly on a Midwest farm: her big-eyed silences were more eloquent than all the speeches of her fellow actors. Newcomer Stevens was recently seen as a teenager on the defunct Jamie series, with Child Star Brandon De Wilde...
...crouching, he shivered with cold as the car rolled westward. After the second day, he could not eat his dry bread. By the end of the sixth day, his drinking water was used up. It took the slow freight that carried his crate three days to get to the Czech frontier at Bratislava. It stood for seven days on a siding near Prague before moving on to East Germany. By the time the freight chugged into Hamburg last week, Komoroczky had been trapped in his crate for 13 days...
...Chris Chataway has been a British favorite. Even though he won the three-mile race at the Empire Games in August, most of his fans remember him as the man who always finishes second. Last summer, at the European championships in Bern, Chris managed to nose out the great Czech runner, Emil Zatopek, in the 5,000- meter run-and still he finished second, behind Russia's Vladimir Kuc (rhymes with coots...
...composer might have applauded it as enthusiastically as the Carnegie audience did. On its U.S. tour, the Concertgebouw will be led only part of the time by Conductor van Beinum, who succeeded the late Willem Mengelberg as its head in 1946. Half the concerts will be led by Czech-born Rafael Kubelik, 40, who conducted the Chicago Symphony for three stormy years and next fall will become musical director of London's Covent Garden Opera. Before the Concertgebouw leaves for home on Dec. 4, it will play such major U.S. cities as Washington, D.C., Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia...
...pointed to Lampass, a Russian two-year-old. "Doesn't he look like a great Graditz stallion with the head of a Russian plow horse?" Everywhere, observant horsemen could see signs of fine bloodlines fouled by careless breeding. As if to embarrass the Russians still further, a Czech horse romped off with the grand prize...