Word: czechoslovakian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newcomer who has struck it richest is Isaac Sabba, 53. The son of Czechoslovakian immigrants who arrived in Manaus when he was 14, he worked on the docks to build capital, started buying and selling jungle produce, branched out into manufacturing ("This country can't develop if we just take things out of it"). Now Sabba's string of eleven corporations is making tin cans and rubber tapping cups, shotgun shells, kraft paper, oil drums, prefabricated houses, dynamite. He distills essential oils, makes leather products, refines and distributes petroleum. He has set up a businessman committee to attract...
...opening ceremony in the huge Sports Stadium indicates the arrational tones of the rallies. An expectant hush was broken by the Czechoslovakian motorcycle brigade, complete with flags, as it raced about the outer track, followed by briefly clad athletes and the Parade of Nations. The accompaniment was an excited running description from the loudspeakers, the periodic release of colorful balloon clusters, bombs bursting and dropping "peace and friendship" signs in every language, and finally the freeing of thousands of white "peace doves." The Austrians sardonically reported that the Soviet skyrockets finished off the doves...
There was tall, lithe Miro Slovak, a onetime pilot for the Red-run Czechoslovakian Airlines, who hit the headlines in 1953 when he commandeered a C-47 and flew to asylum in West Germany. Between races, Slovak is now a crop duster. And there was Bill Muncey, 30, onetime professional hockey player. In 1955 Muncey was so infuriated when officials gave the Gold Cup race to Detroit's Gale V, after he had apparently won it for Seattle in Miss Thriftway, that he moved forthwith to Seattle. He won the Gold Cup for Seattle in both...
...Great Britain, Ike got a boxed paperweight made up of metal flags of Common Market nations. Though the other gifts were to be sent down to Washington, he said, "My son can carry this," and handed the paperweight to his aide, Major John Eisenhower. Of all the exhibits, the Czechoslovakian inspired Ike with the greatest animation. Wagging his head, he discussed with Ambassador Miroslav Ruzek the thing that had impressed him most on his postwar trips to Prague: "There were more good-looking girls there,"he grinned. "Good-looking-no question about that. Really a gang of girls...
Inner Space & Pluck. Thus primed, the talent scouts welcomed buxom Contralto Francesca Friedlander, a Czechoslovakian refugee in a Moravian peasant costume, who explained that "on this beautiful morning I am going to bring you our rivers. I wish you to hear our country, that you should smell our woods, feel our Slavic heart." She belted out a couple of rousing folk songs, wound up with a teary Tenderly that touched every expatriate-loving heart (fee: $50-$80). Pretty Roslyn Rensch, harpist ("a program of rare charm and beauty for discriminating audiences"), strummed out Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young...