Word: pravos
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Love in Czechoslovakia, the Communists announced last week, is dangerously tainted by commercialism. Ever since marriage advertisements were banned from the Czech newspapers, reported Prague's Communist Rude Pravo (Red Right), "editors keep getting letters from men as well as women complaining that now they have no chance to obtain mates...
When the Soviet people heard about our marriage advertisements, they were astonished that anyone could . . . offer himself in this manner. This was a capitalist practice . . ." Some of these capitalist ads, complained Rude Pravo, still got into the papers "veiled as advertisements asking for or offering to become a 'housekeeper...
...Rude Pravo also deplored marriage bureaus, "used on the one hand, by doctors, directors or rich pensioners (factory owners have lost their attraction) and on the other hand by women with suitable dowries or widows with furniture." These bureaus were still legal, but, as Rude Pravo put it, "we can't correct everything at once...
...announcement was made by Prague's Communist Rude Pravo, which printed a communique from the Cominform. With Moscow's tough, party purge-master Andrei Zhdanov in charge, the Cominform had recently held a meeting "somewhere in Rumania...
...handlers plainly considered the European championship only a practice workout for her big try in next month's winter Olympics at St. Moritz, Switzerland. But Prague's newspapers burned up a month's supply of flash bulbs photographing her on ice; even the Communist Rude Pravo shunted the Greek civil war to an inside page. At the finale, the 12,000 spectators, many of whom had paid scalpers' prices for tickets, cheered hard for "Scottova...