Word: czechoslovakian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carts to ease a "transport crisis" on the Czech railroads. Both seemed anxious to lay the blame on Slansky & Co., who were even then headed for the gallows. As if in explanation, Radio Prague played recordings from the trial testimony of Ludvik Frejka, who was author of the Czechoslovakian two-and five-year plans...
...Faster, Higher, Stronger." Beyond question, the Olympics' top hero was its only triple winner, Emil Zatopek, the brilliant, eccentric-styled Czechoslovakian army captain who runs as if every step would be his last. After shattering Olympic marks in the 5,000-and 10,000-meter runs, he capped his own climax by breaking the Olympic marathon record the first & only time he ever ran the tortuous (26 mi. 385 yd.) distance. The biggest Olympic disappointment was Japan's top-rated swimming team, which copped only two silver medals. Even famed Hironoshin ("the Flying Fish") Furuhashi straggled...
Marcel Stary is a 33-year-old Czechoslovakian artist who acted as an interpreter between American troops and underground forces during the war, according to a letter from Reader Marcel Leonard, of St. Jerome, Quebec. Stary fled the Communists and moved to St. Jerome a year...
Many years ago Hans Christian Anderson wrote a fairy tale about a Chinese Emperor and his golden-voiced nightingale. Jiri Trnka has taken the classic folk story and transformed it into a charming, sophisticated screen production. To compare this Czechoslovakian movie with any other would be impossible, for here is not only a fine picture, but a completely new art form in the theatre...
...Embassy ventures to suggest the inherent unsuitability of the potato bug (Doryphora decemlineata) as an instrument of national policy. The Embassy doubts whether the potato bug, even in its most voracious phase, could nibble effectively at the fabric of friendship uniting the Czechoslovakian and the American people...