Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Notable experimenters: Czechoslovakia's Alois Haba, Russia's Ivan Vyschnegradsky, author of a text on quarter-tone theory, and Mexico's Julian Carrillo, who has invented instruments that play quarter, eighth and even sixteenth tones...
Television carried the pontifical Requiem Mass throughout Western Europe, beyond the Iron Curtain to Czechoslovakia, by satellite to the U.S. and parts of Asia. After the ceremony, German Catholic and Protestant churchmen and the visiting dignitaries followed the coffin the 385 yards from the cathedral to the Rhine, where it was placed aboard a German navy patrol boat for a 20-mile trip upstream to Adenauer's village of Rhondorf. There, in a private hillside cemetery, his body was lowered into a grave alongside the flower-decked ones of his two wives and infant...
...Paul-Émile Borduas. France obliged with 28 pieces, West Germany with twelve, Japan with ten, Britain with 14, The Netherlands with eight. But some of the most striking contributions came in the smallest shiploads: Tunisia sent a single Roman mosaic floor, Norway two superb canvases by Edvard Munch, Czechoslovakia a single Kokoschka, The Charles Bridge...
EASTERN EUROPE is at last beginning to grab its share of the tourist business. Budapest's reputation as a swinging capital has penetrated the Iron Curtain. Czechoslovakia offers a Mozart festival, and of late has become downright comradely toward tourists. Says Harvard Square Travel Agent Vladimir Kazan, a Czech-born American citizen who was once jailed in Prague: "From my cellmates, I understand the country is cultivating good restaurants, picturesque cities and reasonably good hotels. I hear they're really catering to Americans." Despite his own unhappy experience, Kazan heartily recommends a visit. Soviet Russia, this year celebrating...
...field. Randy resignedly trudged over to the throwing ring, wound up and sailed the discus 213 ft. 9½ in. - 3 ft. 3½ in. farther than any American had ever hurled it before and barely 2 in. short of the world record held by Czechoslovakia's Ludvik Danek...