Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Czechoslovakia last week came a reminder that marriage to the boss's daughter can benefit a rising young Communist as well as a rising young capitalist. Out of the post of Czech Minister of Defense went General Ludvik Svoboda, career soldier. Into the general's former office moved 40-year-old Dr. Alexei Cepicka, son-in-law of President Klement Gottwald. Little known before 1947, Cepicka had married Gottwald's daughter after the Communists took over the government in 1948. As Minister of Justice, the President's son-in-law had masterminded a relentless, successful...
CountryDollar Value Austria (shillings) 25.83 Belgium (francs) 50.00 Czech, (crowns) 50.00 Denmark (kroner) 6.89 France (francs) 350.00 Italy (lira) 624.00 Germany (marks) 4.20 Holland (guilders) 3.84 Norway (kroner) 7.11 Sweden (kroner) 5.16 Switz. (francs) 4.32 Sterling England (pound) $2.80 Ireland (pound) $2.80 Scotland (pound...
...CZECH COMPLAINTS. Dispatched: a demand for a Czech government apology to 40-year-old Katherine Kosmak, U.S. employee of the U.S. Information Service in Prague, who swore she had been pressured by Czech police to marry a Czech fellow-worker and renounce U.S. citizenship. Received: a brusque note demanding 1) the recall of U.S. Press Attache Joseph Kolarek for "inducing" Czech USIS employees "to spy and gather news"; and 2) the closing of the two USIS offices because they are spy centers and spread "hostile and aggravating and false news." Dispatched: a reluctant compliance (since international law is on their...
While the Middle Eastern desk thus managed to impart to New York traffic a touch of Middle Eastern inefficiency, a recent Czech broadcast made it sound superhumanly efficient. "We must not forget to mention the buses, as they are called here for short . . . They all have one strange quality in common . . . There is only one person, a single man, who not only drives the bus but also takes the fares, makes change, opens and closes the doors . . . And yet he certainly does not run down any more pedestrians than the driver in Paris, London or Prague, who only drives...
Professor Roman Jakobson, who came from Columbia this year, is one of the world's leading philgists, and has command of most languages spoken between the Elbe and the Yangtze. His wife, Dr. Svatava Pirkova-Jakobson, teaches Czech...