Word: czechoslovakian
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Former Crimson star Bill Cleary will center the second line of the United States Olympic Hockey Team today against a strong Czechoslovakian five, as the 1956 Winter Olympic competition begins at Cortina O'Ampezzo, Italy...
...Olympic Runner Emil Zatopek, 34-year-old officer in the Czechoslovakian Army who holds every distance-running record from six miles to 30,000 meters, wiped out a threat to his supremacy. In Russia last month Soviet Runner Albert Ivanov claimed to have cut more than a minute off Zatopek's record time (1 hr. 19 min. 11.8 sec.) for the 25,000 meters. In a race near Prague last week, Zatopek covered the distance in 1 hr. 16 min. 34.6 sec., slicing nearly a minute off Ivanov's unofficial time...
...vodka-splashed party in Moscow's Czechoslovakian embassy, the U.S.S.R.'s Communist Party Secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev was asked by a U.S. newsman whether he is the real boss of the Kremlin. On the inside track, Khrushchev grinned, then politely suggested: "Let's have a drink-and ask me another time...
...made. Last week Premier Georgy Malenkov came to his 52nd birthday (on Jan. 8). In anticipation of the great day, Rumania's Communist news agency, Agerpress, filed a canned eulogy of the Soviet chief to its member papers in preparation for the standard high jinks. Czechoslovakian editors also got set with big laudatory spreads. Soon both Czech and Rumanian editors got urgent word from headquarters: no birthday greetings for Malenkov...
...industry," said he, "should be exporting 50 million tons of coal this year instead of a fraction of that amount. It would make the difference between reasonable employment and subnormal employment . . . We give Italy and France and Yugoslavia and the Low Countries money. They take that money and buy Czechoslovakian coal . . . Now there is no reason why [Japan] shouldn't get [coal] from the U.S. except that we don't have the aptitude to furnish the coal, so we give her money and she buys Manchurian coal from the Russians. Our mines are idle, our railroads...