Word: stayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lyrics by Fred Ebb from this routine Broadway show. Risking nothing, the songs accomplish little more. Star Robert Goulet comes across like a thin shadow of Maurice Chevalier. As one of the show's songs asks, "With Paris, Rome, Lisbon and Venice, why would anyone want to stay in St. Pierre?" Why, indeed...
Clicking Shutters. The backbone of resistance was Czechoslovak radio, which managed to stay on the air by wit and engineering wizardry. Middle-of-the-night calls went out to nearly all station personnel when the invasion started, and announcers managed to talk their way past Soviet lines even after the studios were surrounded. Věra Stovíčková, one of the best-known voices of Prague Radio, got past Russian guards by claiming that she was a charwoman. Others slipped out of the studios with vital transmitting equipment, which was soon wired up to put "Radio Free...
...Shirley Temple Black and TV Actor Robert (U.N.C.L.E.) Vaughn, to West Germany and Austria. Tourists streamed out of the country in their cars, often driving past menacing Soviet tanks parked at lonely countryside junctions with their guns pointed at the road. The Czechoslovaks at first begged the tourists to stay and aid them in their struggle, then put them to work carrying out mail for relatives abroad and film to show the world what was happening. As the tourists left the country, Czechoslovak frontier guards urged them to mobilize opinion against the Russians when they got home. Meanwhile, many Czechoslovaks...
Many Czechoslovaks were encouraged by the length of Svoboda's stay in Moscow. "If the Soviets had been convinced that they were right," said Agriculture Minister Josef Boruvka, "the negotiations would not have lasted more than an hour." One report said that Svoboda was promising to reimpose a degree of censorship and brake the democratization a bit as part of a political compromise. The Russians, in return, would permit not only Dubcek but also Cernik and Smrkovsky to continue in office. This would leave mat ters pretty much where they stood after Cierna?except that Soviet tanks would still...
...more effective fund raiser than administrator, he attracted enough money to complete $70 million worth of new buildings and push the annual operating budget from $22 million to $136 million. He had almost reached the halfway point in the university's current $200 million fund drive, and will stay on as president emeritus to finish...