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...Chicago 21 plan also provides for massive improvements in existing low-income communities. The planners urge an end to public housing, feeling that home ownership is vital to city health. Beyond that, parks and new housing will be added to the mainly Latin American Pilsen neighborhood, and Chinatown will be reoriented toward the Chicago River. For the rundown Cabrini Green area they recommend new housing, job training centers and mass transit to allow residents to travel to work without having...
...million private cars, including even French-made Simcas as well as Czechoslovakia's own Skoda, jam the streets and roads of this small nation of 14 million people. Restaurants are packed with Czechoslovak and foreign tourists, swigging Pilsen beer and devouring pork-and fruit-filled dumplings. Perhaps as a result, the Czechoslovaks are now on a physical-fitness kick. One Prague sporting-goods store is doing a thriving business in exercise machines...
Czechoslovakia's CSA is the best of a dubious bunch. Its pilots are relatively prudent, and its stewardesses-who tend to be long-limbed, cool blondes-are the most stylishly dressed. They serve Pilsen beer and the standard Eastern European airline fare of cheese, salami and black bread. On the ground, too, CSA is more efficient than the others. Prague's airport is modern and attractive and has a reasonable restaurant. Taxis are usually available...
...face of Czechoslovakia's steadily sagging economy and its even limper national morale, Communist Party Boss Gustav Husak last week decided that the time was ripe for a good pep talk. Before 700 workers at the Skoda auto works in Pilsen, he admitted: "Quite a lot of people are falling into some sort of depression. They are spreading panicky moods, as if our state and all of our society were facing some sort of bankruptcy from which there is no way out." Husak thereupon assured his listeners that he would be better for them than either of his predecessors...
...country's homes. They had also, reported Prchlík, invited ex-Party Boss Novotny to Moscow to broadcast a plea for Dubček's overthrow via their network. (Last week Novotny was waiting things out at a country villa at Rokycany, about nine miles from Pilsen, where he was under close surveillance.) The Russian embassy in Prague contains a printing plant that has been turning out a stream of antireform leaflets...