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Holding the Lid. In proof of the line's amazing adaptability, Novotny tackled an embarrassing task: making his promised new explanation of the execution of Party Secretary Rudolf Slansky in 1952 for "activities against the state." Slansky was guilty, all right, explained Novotny, but not of what he was accused of. The charges presented in court, particularly those implicating Tito's Yugoslavia, were all "false and fabricated." But authorities had since discovered new Slansky crimes, e.g., torturing suspects. Therefore, Slansky would not be rehabilitated...
...judge at Slansky's trial, and two Cabinet ministers. The conference closed on a note of repression. Newspapers were warned against "incorrect ideas," and "reactionary elements among students" were threatened darkly. Dozens of students were picked up by police. The Czechs were laboring hard to keep the lid...
...thought to a musical career. A couple of years ago, Presley, working as a truck driver, was seized with the urge to hear his own voice, took his guitar with him and made a recording in a public studio. "It sounded like somebody beatin' on a bucket lid," Presley recalls. "But the engineer at this studio had a recording company called Sun, and he told me I had an unusual voice, and he might call me up sometime...
Student of High Life. Rubinstein was born in Lodz, Poland, the youngest of seven children of a small manufacturer. By the time he was three, he was a "terrible little fiend" about music, screaming at his sisters when they struck a sour chord and banging the piano lid on their fingers to make them stop. Impressed with his son's possibilities, Papa Rubinstein bought him a child-sized violin. Artur promptly smashed it. Papa bought another, and Artur smashed that too. Papa gave up, let him concentrate on the then less fashionable piano...
...holds day and night until the lucky clipper is loaded to the lid with 360 tons of fish, and then she wallows home in triumph. For his four months' work, each member of the crew has made himself $2,500-good pay if a man considers that most of it was made in 75 herculean hours...