Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Roman Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia finally bowed to state control (TIME, Nov. 14), the Czech Episcopate managed to make one modest reservation: it inserted a clause in the loyalty oath to the government, which all priests would henceforth have to take, implying that they would not follow orders "contrary to the laws of God or human rights...
...Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith decided he wanted to go fishing. He drove his car out to the Moscow Sea (an artificial lake near the capital) without notifying his MVD guards, who shadowed him everywhere he went. He persuaded the head of a-small fishery to take him out on the lake in the only rowboat in sight. Smith assumed that the guards, who had of course followed him, would wait at the shore. But he had underestimated "the Oriental concept .of hospitality" which he encountered in Russia. Related Smith last week in My Three Years in Moscow, which...
...about to take pity on them and go to shore when another rowboat, occupied by two Russian women, approached. The guards hailed the newly arrived boat, and after a brief but wordy exchange both boats rowed to the shore where they dispossessed the two women, expropriated their less leaky boat and resumed their post... I never saw more rugged souls...
...plazas. Rifle-toting troopers turned Congressmen away from the Capitol. Rumors spread through Carrera Septima crowds that Liberal leaders had been assassinated. Panicky shopkeepers slammed down their iron shutters. People stampeded. One woman, asked why she was running, answered: "Because everyone else is." An Austrian who had seen Dollfuss take over Vienna in 1932 said: "It is not only the same but exactly the same...
...Maria is fond of lilies and orchids, which she grows, and wild about bullfighting. Having studied in the U.S. for a year at San Francisco's Sacred Heart School, she would like to travel more, hopes to take up social work as a career...