Word: kladno
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...breaking attendance records everywhere he goes. Playing for his hometown team, HC Rabat Kladno, he scored 11 goals and made 17 assists in 17 games. (In November, he moved to Siberia's Avangard Omsk, sponsored by billionaire Roman Abramovich.) The transitions have not all been smooth. The European emphasis on elegant skating and fancy puck control, for example, has challenged some NHL players accustomed to North America's narrower rinks and more aggressive play. But many are relishing the experience. "The biggest thing is the ice surface; it gives you that much more time with the puck," says Rick Nash...
...What would it change?" shrugged a young mechanic from Kladno. In Prague, some Czechs placed flowers and candles on the grave of Jan Palach, the student who burned himself to death on Jan. 16, 1969, in protest against the invasion. The flowers and candles were removed by the authorities...
After sifting hundreds of contradictory reports, British intelligence officers are now reasonably satisfied that Burgess is working for the Russians in Moscow as adviser on English-language broadcasts, that MacLean is living with his wife and children in Kladno, Czechoslovakia as "senior evaluator" of Western diplomacy and propaganda...
...crimes against humanity," received a quick trial and death sentences. Recently brought from Russia, they were: Nazi staff Officer Friedrich Gottschalk, Gestapoman Walter Richter, and SS (Elite Guard) Generals Ernst Hitzegrad, Richard Schmidt and Max Rozstock. Three women survivors of Lidice identified Rozstock, former chief of Nazi security in Kladno, Bohemia, as the man who directed the destruction of Lidice. Unexplained: why the Russians waited so long...
...small town of Lidice, not far from Prague, there lived 1,200 human beings. Some worked in the orchards, gardens and fields which they owned; others were woodworkers and coal miners; still others walked 45 minutes every day to toil in the munitions plant at Kladno. Lidice had a churcht. Martin's—which was nearly five centuries old and to which the people of four nearby villages flocked on Sundays...