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...controversy rages. Perhaps the late Artur Rodzinski said it all during a recording session with Pianist Paul Badura-Skoda. Listening to a patched-up playback of one of their tapes Badura-Skoda exclaimed: "Listen! Isn't that magnificent?" "Yes," replied the maestro dryly, "don't you wish you could play that...
Seeds of Shortage. Czechoslovakia's economic troubles stem from the inflexible imposition of Marxist rules on the economy. Prewar Czechoslovakia was famous for sophisticated consumer goods, from Skoda automobiles to Bohemian glass; its living standard was among Europe's highest, and the country emerged from the war relatively undamaged. Then the Communists, who seized power in 1948, gradually switched much of the country's economy over to heavy industry...
...CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Though in better shape industrially than most of the Iron Curtain countries, Czechoslovakia has experienced such a rapid decline in the rate of capital investment that the famed Czech automaker Skoda had to reduce its output last year by 15% to 54,000 autos. In a rather pitiful move to entice Western companies to sell their goods in Czechoslovakia, the government recently offered them the opportunity to advertise on TV or in Czech newspapers. There have been no takers...
...Government. For months, Cuban trade officials have been shopping with France, West Germany, Spain and Japan for someone to restore the island's disintegrating transportation system. Havana bus parks are filled with rusting U.S. buses for which no parts are available. In 1962, Czechoslovakia sent several hundred Skoda buses, but they soon fell victim to Cuba's tropical weather, its potholed roads and hot-rodding drivers. Of some 1,600 buses operating in Havana in 1961, only about half are still in service, so few that Cubans go to work packed like cattle into trucks...
...elegant and cynical father-in-law, the late Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider, the company shipped arms to most of the world's warring nations. It bought iron mines, foundries and shipyards, and won control of more than 200 arms plants outside France, including Czechoslovakia's Skoda, which it sold to Czech interests just before the Nazis occupied all Czechoslovakia. The French government nationalized Schneider's French arms plants...