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Despite such long strivings, Czechoslovakia is, politically speaking, a young country that did not gain its independence until 50 years ago. Even then, it took World War I and two remarkable men to achieve that. They were Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, a philosophy professor, and his colleague and ultimate successor, Eduard Bene?, who had been one of his students at Prague. When the war broke out, they slipped out of their homeland to work abroad for Czechoslovak freedom. A master of public persuasion, Masaryk traveled to the U.S. and argued the case for his country's freedom so well that President...
...growing interest in the occult." Mixing mechanization with the personal touch is a Dayton's hallmark that has paid off for the company as a whole. Last year Dayton's had sales of $265,507,000 and profits of $9,587,000, a gain of some 17% over the previous year. It expects to increase its sales by $100 million during fiscal...
...support from the rest of the world. Britain naturally supported its Commonwealth partner. The rest of Europe and even Soviet Russia (seeing a chance to gain a new foothold in Africa by backing the likely winner) were soon providing Nigerian military commanders with every kind of weapon they wanted. Automatic rifles and endless rounds of ammunition, heavy artillery, mortars, rockets, grenade launchers, antiaircraft guns, Czechoslovak Delfin jets, Russian MIGs and Ilyushin 11-28 bombers?Nigeria ordered and got them all. The result was an unhappy precedent for Africa: the Nigerian conflict became the first African bush war fought with modern...
...First National's offer, White delivered what Adams termed "an ultimatum." According to Adams, White called on the bank either to accede to his full demands for board representation, buy out the family's holding or face a takeover attempt. White denies that he is trying to gain control of the bank. Instead, he says, the Whites seek representation on the board "to assure continuity of our family interests and to advocate more enlightened and progressive policies...
...really have nothing specific to say. The electric Everyman has hit town, it provides our summer with the ending of our wildest dreams, its faulted but perceptive vision is our gain, and you'd be nutty not to get there fast. More to follow Tuesday of a somewhat more analytic nature...