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...like Husák, initially supported Dubček but quickly adjusted to the Soviet occupation. Ultras, who recently took control of the party organization in Prague, moved into positions of power in the trade-union movement and perhaps even the Interior Ministry, which controls the secret police. Josef Korčák, who became premier of the Czech lands, threatened a crackdown on Czechoslovakia's associations of artists and writers. There was also the threat of new purges among newsmen. "The mass media must ensure that there is only one line of thought in the country," Strougal declared...
...roots were far removed from Grecian lore. The son of an Armenian cobbler, he grew up in New Britain, Conn. After a stint in the Navy, he attended college under the G.I. Bill, finishing up with a year under the "hard but kind" tutelage of Bauhaus Master Josef Albers at Yale. Now 43, he teaches sculpture himself at Dartmouth. He first became interested in Orpheus during college days, and printed a small portfolio of woodcuts, accompanied by his own poetry. Years later, while he was picking up driftwood on a Provincetown beach, the story of Orpheus came back. He took...
Colburn also finished last in his rematch Saturday with Czechoslovakia's Josef Plachy in the 1000. Plachy had come from behind to beat him two weeks ago in the Knights of Columbus Meet, but Saturday, Colburn was simply too tired to get revenge. "It was really weird not being able to move," he said last night...
...Died. Josef Hromádka, 80, Czechoslovak theologian and proponent of Christian-Communist entente; of a heart attack; in Prague. For years, Soviet Communism had no stronger Protestant advocate than Hromádka. Even so, he argued that, because Marxist-Leninist doctrine did not answer the ultimate questions of life, Christianity might eventually transform Communism. But the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 dashed all his hopes. "My deepest feeling is of disillusionment, sorrow and shame," he wrote, before resigning from the Prague-based Christian Peace Conference, which he had founded...
...Died. Josef von Sternberg, 75, Austrian-born director of notable films in the '20s and '30s; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Flamboyant and volatile, Sternberg wanted no part of the then-standard Hollywood formula of saccharine pap; his works were starkly realistic, and as early as 1925, in The Salvation Hunters, he was experimenting with eroticism and the juxtaposition of light and shadow to create haunting shifts of mood. Perhaps his greatest coup was the discovery of a young unknown named Marlene Dietrich, whom he cast in 1930 in The Blue Angel and in six other well...