Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winding road to Hradčany Castle, which broods above Prague's Baroque towers and its wide, grey Vltava River, came a steady stream of Tatra limousines. As they had many times before, they bore the rulers of Communist Czechoslovakia to a meeting of the Central Committee, usually the most remote and tightly guarded of affairs. On this spring morning, however, the atmosphere on Hradčany Hill was more like the opening of a fair. The usual security guards were absent, and crowds of people wandered unhindered through the castle's many courtyards. As the Communist leaders...
During his first 100 days in power, Dubček has offered the 14,300,000 Czechoslovaks a bright and beckoning vision of how to take their own special road to socialism. In a country where for 20 years civil and personal liberties had been mercilessly squashed, almost total freedom of expression now reigns, the police have been put in harness and demonstrations of every sort can take place. Dubček, who threw out the hardlining Antonín Novotný as party boss in January and as President in March, has transformed Czechoslovakia into the most liberal...
...Johnson before the New Hampshire primary. With the returns in and L.B.J. bloodied, Kennedy is "just as much a coward when he comes down from the hills to shoot the wounded. He has, in the naked display of his rage at Eugene McCarthy for having survived on the lonely road he dared not walk himself, done with a single great gesture something very few public men have ever been able to do: in one day he managed to confirm the worst things his enemies have ever said about...
...last week's twelve-hour endurance race at Sebring, Fla., the one-two finish of the fast new Porsche prototypes was almost a foregone conclusion. But the performance of ex-Road Racing Champion Roger Penske's Chevrolet Camaros, which placed third and fourth, was a startling surprise. The Camaro, after all, is a standard road car, not a finely tuned racer. Penske's entries were no run-of-the-showroom models, to be sure; at a cost approaching $25,000 apiece, each machine had been modified for racing with the addition of everything from a souped...
American Motors Corp. has encountered many obstacles on the road back to financial health but none any more perilous than its eight-month-long labor negotiations with the United Automobile Workers. Away from the bargaining table, the company has made headway against major roadblocks. Last month it announced earnings for the three months ending Dec. 31 of $4,500,000 (plus a special tax recovery of $19,200,000), its first quarterly profit in 18 months. Its auto sales for the current model-year have been running about 10% ahead of last year's levels. Encouraging as those signs...