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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...
...MICHAEL KOR...
...curtain fell, the sellout audience of 3,000 burst into a 15-minute ovation. The company's stand at Expo 67, which continues for the next two weeks with the addition of Rimsky-Kor-sakov's The Legend of the City of Ki-tezh, Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades and Borodin's Prince Igor, was already a bolshoi success...
...retailing. Under Ferkauf's endless prodding, they began to move into the rich markets of suburbia, added to their basic stock in trade-appliances-most of the lines of merchandise that department stores carry. Korvette's also began to put out its own private labels, from Kor-Val vitamins to the booming XAM stereo hi-fi line (named in a backward way after Max, an alley cat of Ferkauf's acquaintance...
Boston-born Korczak Ziolkowski likes to do things on a big scale. A brawny six-footer who wears a full-blown, eight-inch beard, he can still, at 48, lift a 500-Ib. weight off the floor. His name itself (approximate pronunciation: Kor-chak Jule-fcttjf-ski) is so big a mouthful that even old friends avoid using it so they won't mispronounce it. But the biggest thing about Ziolkowski is his ambition. It is to carve the most mountainous piece of man-made sculpture in recorded history. He is working on a piece of material that...