Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles' proposals got no welcome from either side; the State Department's follow-through was woefully inadequate, and the Czech arms deal shortly afterwards queered everything. But the urgency of a solution increases, and so does the difficulty, as the weeks go by. The subject is now high on the agenda of the U.S. National Security Council, and the British Foreign Office last week called home eight Middle East ambassadors for talks. In Jordan, Arab refugees from Palestine, spurred by Egyptian and Saudi Arabian agitators (and also by Communist agents) rioted in the streets and smashed...
Untouched by professional coaching. Dave Stephens has copied his style from the great Czech Emil Zatopek. During the World Youth Festival at Bucharest in 1953, the two men became friends. An unspectacular performer at Bucharest, Stephens came home and began to break Australian records right and left. Often the races were run in foul weather, and often Dave ran barefoot. He could not afford track shoes...
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, for whom the play was created, try very hard to bring the inert bulk of the comedy to life. They assume foreign accents--he, something that sounds like German and is supposed to be Czech; she, cockney--they hurry about the stage a if they were really not more than sixty years old, and they argue about what code to use in their mind reading act as thought the subject held great interest. But, in the end, the Lunts too lose out to mediocre writing. The backstage life of vaudeville performers has so often been...
Died. Herman Steiner, 50, Czech-born U.S. chess champion (1948-51), member of the ten-man U.S. chess team that played in Moscow last summer; of a heart attack following a game for the California State Championship; in Los Angeles...
...professor of international relations, he later proved his devotion to Big Brother by writing a book called The Wilson Legend in the History of the Czechoslovak Republic, a sleazy effort to debunk Czechoslovakia's esteem for Woodrow Wilson. For this and similar services, Hajek last May was made Czech ambassador to London...