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...forcing 63 liberals out of the Czech National Council, the parliamentary body for the Czech-speaking part of the country. Previously, liberals in the federal Parliament had been replaced by hardliners. Among those expelled in absentia from the Czech Council last week were Economist Ota Sik and Kafka Expert Eduard Goldstücker, former president of the Writers' Union, both of whom have gained refuge in the West. Said Dubček's onetime Culture and Education Minister, Ćestmír Císaŕ, as he resigned from his post as Council president: "I admit...
...Before the Carpenter Center opened in 1963. Mirko and an assistant taught all design courses in an old bindery building on the site of what is now Peabody Terrace. In 1968. he joined with Eduard F. Sekler. professor of Architecture, Robert G. Gardner, and former chairman of the Architectural Sciences Department, Norman Newton, to build the undergraduate program which has become the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies...
Mosley recreates a climate of haplessness. French Premier Edouard Daladier, Czechoslovakia's President Eduard Beneš and even Mussolini seemed as out of step with history as Chamberlain. They were obsolete men (in the McLuhan sense) when compared to an eerily turned-on Hitler. Czechoslovakia, with a modern air force and a well-trained army, put up no resistance. It was, alas, Poland that stood firm: the only trouble was, as Mosley observes, "When the Poles saber-rattled it was actually sabers they were rattling...
...Eduard Sekler...
...resident visas to almost 2,000 persons-including Marcella Grossova, 24, runner-up in Czechoslovakia's annual national beauty contest, who was snapped up by a Toronto modeling agency. Canada budgeted $2,000,000 to settle the refugees and teach them either English or French. Some, like Musician Eduard Ambros, 25, can skip the linguistics. "I feel very good to be in Canada," he told airport well-wishers in excellent English. "I hear you have a right free country...