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...Karel Kaplan. A former Communist ideologue in Czechoslovakia who blossomed as a party liberal during the short-lived "Prague spring" of 1968, Kaplan has assembled in West Germany what he says is a vast compendium of documents relating to the turbulent history of Czechoslovakia in the past three decades...
...There's no such thing as an undiscovered paradise," says a California real estate man named Karel van Haefton. "There is only a paradise that someone has found and wants to sell." He should know. At 29, Van Haefton is founder and owner of a most unusual realty company. Operating out of a handsome houseboat on Sausalito's waterfront, it is called Rare Earth Realty, and it sells the kind of land that some people consider, well, paradise...
...Balanchine's great ballerinas, from Maria Tallchief to Suzanne Farrell. Then in April 1968, after the shock of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, he decided that it was time to do something for black people. His first move was to approach the eminent American dance teacher Karel Shook, then ballet master of the Netherlands National Ballet...
Born heir to the pocket principality of Lippe-Biesterfeld in 1911, Prince Bernhard Leopold Frederik Everhard Julius Coert Karel Godfried Pieter spent a carefree childhood riding horses, hunting and fishing on a family estate in eastern Germany. After what he calls "a fairly perfunctory" university education in Switzerland and Germany, the prince studied law at the University of Berlin where, like all German students, he was forced to become a member of the Hitler Youth Movement. Severing all connection with the Nazi Party, Bernhard, after his graduation in 1935, took a job in the Paris office of I.G. Farben...
Because, says Czechoslovakia's coach Karel Gut, his team can win the gold medal. The Czechs lost the Izvestia Cup tournament to the Soviets last December by only one goal, and the Russians had home-ice advantage. Gut is confident that Goal Tender Jiri Holocek and Wing Vladimir Martinek are the equals of the better-publicized Soviets. The Finns are a solid bet for a bronze, but the young American team could surprise. In fact, U.S. Coach Bob Johnson is planning on it. He has a future pro goalie in Jim Warden, and his squad has beaten teams from...