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...East bloc following Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin, Novotny tried his best to ward them off. Even so, the pressure for change built up. Art, especially literature and film making, experienced an underground renaissance. Artists and students demanded freedom of expression. Industrial planners and economists asked for freer and more effective ways of doing business. Last January, the new forces surging within Czechoslovak Communism culminated in the person of Alexander Dubcek, who ousted Novotny from power and instituted a series of liberal reforms. For eight memorable months, Czechoslovakia was one of the most exciting and hopeful places...
...schoolboy friendship with Roussel that steered him to painting. When Roussel enrolled with an art teacher, Vuillard decided that he also wanted to be a painter, and succeeded in enrolling at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Unhappy with its rigid academicism, he transferred to the somewhat freer atmosphere of the Academic Julian, where he met Bonnard, Maurice Denis and Vallotton. Calling themselves the Nabis (Hebrew for prophets), they formed a group to perpetuate Gauguin's theories on painting, Mallarme's on poetry. "To name an object," the symbolist poet had written, "is to do away with three-quarters...
...dress and grooming. The swinging look, long confined to with-it secretaries, is fast spreading to other employees, men and women alike. In many offices and executive suites, business greys are giving way to the bolder hues of the boutique. For every stuffed shirt still around, for example, a freer spirit at the next desk is likely to be wearing a striped or even a paisley one. "Business is permitting far more latitude in dress than it did five years ago," says Sherrie Rubin, a field representative for Los Angeles' Western Girl Inc. employment agency...
...Broz Tito took the first successful walk from Moscow. The Kremlin successfully stamped out Hungary's uprising in 1956, but Tito has been followed in this decade by the puritanical Chinese and their sympathizers in Albania, then by Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu, who wanted to pursue a freer foreign policy. Thus Russia now finds itself caught in the middle, between the Stalinist reaction of China on one side and the liberal yearnings of Czechoslovakia on the other...
...reason for restructuring the corporation. Under Interstate Commerce Commission regulations, a railroad can issue securities only for new ventures connected with railroading. Moreover, it needs ICC permission for just about every kind of venture it undertakes. A holding company that happens to have a railroad as a subsidiary is freer from ICC control. Thus, when the name change takes place, accompanied by an exchange of A.T. & S.F. stock for equal shares in Santa Fe Industries, the railroad will be merely a portion of the bigger company. Chairman and Chief Executive Ernest S. Marsh, 65, and President John S. Reed...