Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark glasses was Jaroslav Drobny, the Czech exile who had already spent the better part of ten Wimbledon tournaments on his feet, but had never walked off the green center court with the trophy that he, and all tennis amateurs, aspire to: the Wimbledon Challenge...
Chasing butterflies around his home; in Melbourne, Australia gave amateur Entomologist John Landy, 24, the legs and lungs of a miler. Watching the great Czech Champion Emil Zatopek win three Olympic titles taught him some of the technical tricks of the track star's trade...
Finally, in 1950, Lausman seemed to make up his mind. He fled to the West and denounced Czechoslovakia as "the best Soviet arsenal in Europe." The Prague regime called him a disguised U.S. spy; Czech emigres called him a disguised Red spy. Bitter and unhappy, Lausman went off to Yugoslavia, where the West and Communism seem to meet...
...Glasses. One day late last year he got word that an old friend wanted to see him in Paris. On Nov. 17 Lausman and a companion went to the corner of Avenue Charles Floquet and the Rue Desaix and there confronted the old friend, Czech Ambassador Gustav Soucek. Said Soucek: "The political line at home will soon change to a more liberal line." Lausman was fascinated. He eagerly sought a second meeting...
...immigrants themselves are happy. Last year fewer than 600 had to be shipped back home. Among those who stayed there is a common experience of success, and each national group provides its own striking examples of how its members have prospered. A Czech family has built a lumber business employing 4,000. Two Britons opened a garage in Ottawa and are grossing more than $100,000 a year. The Dutch are especially proud of one family that emigrated to a Manitoba farm in 1948. Two years later, they had saved enough to buy and move into the former home...