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When the local Reds came around one day and told Vaclav Uhlik that they were going to nationalize his small machine shop in Pilsen, Vaclav made up his mind. He would escape to the West. Cautiously, he enlisted some friends in his plan: two Czech soldiers, a gardener named Josef Pisarik, Libuse Cloud, who had married an American G.I. from Sioux City back in 1949, but had never been able to get out of Czechoslovakia to join him. Then Vaclav swapped his most precious possession, a diesel engine, for a beaten-up British halftrack abandoned after...
...with," he explained. Then, in a succession of upsets, he knocked three top-seeded stars out of the tournament. In each case, his victim had a physical alibi: the U.S.'s Gardnar Mulloy (No. 5) a leg cramp, Australia's Ken Rosewall (No. 1) a queasy stomach, Czech-born Jaroslav Drobny (No. 4) a wrenched leg muscle. Nonetheless, there Nielsen was: a Wimbledon finalist, and the first unseeded one since...
From Ostrava, in the Czech Ruhr, Nova Svoboda reported: "At Vaclav, Zone, Czechoslovak Pioneer Mines, Bohumin Iron Works and the Stalingrad Iron Works in Liskovec, some workers let themselves be misled by provocateurs in the service of the bourgeoisie . . . Considerable unrest and provocations took place . . . State and labor discipline was seriously disturbed . . . Loyal workers liquidated the subversive activities...
...much the Reds themselves acknowledged; how much more went on? Radio Free Europe, just across the Czech frontier, painstakingly analyzed reports by travelers and refugees and filled out the story...
...check the alarming growth of absenteeism among Czech factory hands, the newspaper Rude Pravo reported last week, the Czechoslovakian Red government has instituted a system of "camera control." Workers have been told to photograph fellow employees coming to work late or leaving early, and all "allegedly sick" co-workers who are found "in their gardens or working elsewhere." The pictures will be posted on factory bulletin boards...