Word: vaclav
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School Library has discovered a "loss" of nearly 1500 books after moving a substantial part of the foreign and international law collections into a new wing. "We just don't know where they are," Vaclav Mostecky, assistant librarian, confessed...
...satisfy the party's dissident elements, more had to be done. The party promptly sacked Prosecutor General Vaclav Ales, the judge at Slansky's trial, and two Cabinet ministers. The conference closed on a note of repression. Newspapers were warned against "incorrect ideas," and "reactionary elements among students" were threatened darkly. Dozens of students were picked up by police. The Czechs were laboring hard to keep...
...David Vaclav, Czechoslovakia, current Foreign Minister, disappeared...
Professor Vaclav Hlavaty of Indiana University an authority of multi-demensional geometry thrilled mathematical experts on August 8 when he announced that his spinor theory will solve Einstein's Unified Field Theory. The theory, which makes use of spinors usually used in quantum mechanics, claims the basis of the universe is electromagnetism. Commented Gorrett Birkhoff, professor of Mathematics, "These new things are so complicated it makes you wonder whether there's anything to them...
Originally, the three were five, all Czechs: two brothers, Ctirad and Josef Masin, in their early 20s; a friend, Milan Baumer, 22, a military cadet; Zbynek Janata, 30, a factory executive; and Vaclav Svejda, 30, a disappropriated landowner. Armed with one revolver of about .35 caliber, two smaller automatics and 52 cartridges-arms hidden since World War II-the group formed up in Prague. Early in October they crossed the Czech-East German frontier at night. They were almost due south of Berlin and some 130 air miles away...