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...small plane stood on an airfield in South Korea at dawn one day last week, waiting to take on passengers bound for the north. They were Polish, Czech and Swiss members of a neutral nations' truce inspection team which had been keeping check on the airfield's traffic. Just as the plane was ready to take off, one of the neutrals, pale, thin Jan Hajdukiewicz of Poland, ran from his colleagues to the side of U.S. Major Edward Moran. "I'm afraid to go back to Communism!" he blurted out to the non-neutral major...
...Associated Press Correspondent Bill Oatis confess? Newsmen all over the free world expected a ringing answer to the question when Oatis was released by the Czechs three months ago, after serving two years of a ten-year sentence on a charge of spying (TIME, May 25). But they were disappointed. Frail (123 Ibs.), tuberculous and bewildered by his unexpected reprieve, Oatis begged off answering until he could rest and get medical treatment. This week, in newspapers all over the U.S. and in the pages of LIFE, Bill Oatis, 39, explained not only why he confessed but how the Czech Communists...
...stole hard-to-get pieces of iron and steel, and clandestinely carried them to the machine shop. For two years, under cover of night, Vaclav hammered and riveted his precious machine together. One midnight last week it was ready-a homemade armored car carefully designed to look like a Czech army model, even down to clattering tank tracks. The conspirators decked the machine with leaves and branches to give it the look of a camouflaged vehicle on maneuvers. Then Vaclav, his wife, their two young children, and the four others piled in, and the wonderful machine set off with...
Sleepy police patrols in Pilsen hardly glanced at it. By 5 a.m. the car had reached the barbed-wire border area. Vaclav wrenched the wheel, lurched off the road and into the wire barrier. Czech border guards stood by, mouths agape, as the machine snorted through the wire and crossed into West Germany. None fired, or even raised a Tommy gun. The car rumbled westward for several miles before West German police caught up with it. Vaclav "unbuttoned" the armor and out tumbled eight happy Czechs. "I want to get to my husband and the U.S. the fastest way," said...
Last week Professor Vaclav Hlavaty of Indiana University, a refugee Czech expert on multi-dimensional geometry, announced that he had taken the first step toward checking Einstein.* Like most mathematicians, he cannot explain clearly to laymen just what he has done. Apparently he has worked out a solution for Einstein's equations, and has concluded that electromagnetism gives rise to both matter and to gravity, a property of matter. This would make the laws of electro-magnetism supreme, superseding the "dice" of quantum mechanics...