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...GREAT TIMES call for great men," begins Jaroslav Hasek's account of life in the Czech division of the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I. The good soldier Svejk, who made a peacetime living by selling stolen dogs after getting himself discharged from the army as a certified imbecile, wasn't meant to be a conventional great man. But Hasek didn't think much of conventional great times either. He thought World War I was a pretty fair sample--an enormous sacrifice of common people's lives on the altar of such gods as emperors' glory and capitalists' profits...
...spring, the construction site became a sea of mud. Hundreds of yards of dikes and runoff canals had to be built. Fiat had to rely on Soviet subcontractors to supply many of the parts it needed in the early stages of production. Tires from the factory of Jaroslav wore out after no more than ten miles of testing. One Italian at the plant estimated that fully half the parts furnished by Soviet suppliers had to be discarded...
Dukla jumped out to a quick led after only 58 seconds had expired in the first period. Harvard was a man down, with Mark Noonan whistled into the box after just 13 seconds, as Czech enter Jaroslav Holik blasted a slap shot past Bertagna...
Four of the Czech icemen playing tonight did play for the national team. The first line of Jan Hrbaty, Jaroslav Holak and Jan Klapac as well as goalie Miroslav Nolak are all Meritorious Masters of Sport in their country. The honor is the highest a Czechoslavakian athlete can receive...
...Czech regime last week began trial No. 8, charging Jaroslav Sabata, former secretary of the Brno party organization with subversion...