Word: jaroslav
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...counter skepticism, the U.S. State Department stepped in to confirm "a nefarious plot," and U.S. Army Headquarters in Heidelberg reported that its counter-intelligence agents had discovered the guilty Communist, one Jaroslav Nemec, who works in the Czechoslovak consulate at Salzburg, Austria...
Nobel Prize for chemistry went to Professor Jaroslav Heyrovsky, 68, of Charles University, Prague, the first Czechoslovak to win a Nobel Prize. The award came as much-belated recognition for his discovery of polarography, a delicate electrical method of chemical analysis. It works by measuring the properties of ions, and can detect slight traces of metals in a drop or two of a complex solution. Discovered in 1925, polarography is still used all over the world by analytical chemists...
...author of this Candide-like scrap of philosophizing is one Joseph Schweik, private first class in the Czech army during World War I. Cheerful Sad-Sack Schweik first turned up back in the 1920s in Czech Novelist Jaroslav Hasek's antimilitary satire, The Good Soldier Schweik. Last week he popped up on the stage of Manhattan's City Center in the premiere of the late Robert Kurka's operatic version and won a warm welcome from audiences in the New York City Opera's spring season of contemporary American works...
...Lutherans also find an emphasis on disciplined thinking about the nature of God and man that is anything but typical of U.S. Protestantism. Says Lutheran Jaroslav Pelikan. professor of Historical Christianity at the University of Chicago's Federated Theological Faculty: "We are theologically specific and theologically concerned. We are not concerned with positive thinking, with hustle-bustle for its own sake. We are not just a chummy group. The interesting thing is that while the historic differences remain. Lutherans have begun to recognize that they are closer to Roman Catholics in many ways than they are to other Protestants...
Married. Archduchess Maria Ileana of Habsburg, 23, Vassar-exposed, blonde daughter of exiled Princess Ileana (I Live Again) of Rumania; and Austrian Landowner-Businessman Count Jaroslav Kottulinsky, 39 ; in Vienna...