Word: vaclav
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When the local Reds came around one day and told Vaclav Uhlik that they were going to nationalize his small machine shop in Pilsen, Vaclav made up his mind. He would escape to the West. Cautiously, he enlisted some friends in his plan: two Czech soldiers, a gardener named Josef Pisarik, Libuse Cloud, who had married an American G.I. from Sioux City back in 1949, but had never been able to get out of Czechoslovakia to join him. Then Vaclav swapped his most precious possession, a diesel engine, for a beaten-up British halftrack abandoned after...
From Ostrava, in the Czech Ruhr, Nova Svoboda reported: "At Vaclav, Zone, Czechoslovak Pioneer Mines, Bohumin Iron Works and the Stalingrad Iron Works in Liskovec, some workers let themselves be misled by provocateurs in the service of the bourgeoisie . . . Considerable unrest and provocations took place . . . State and labor discipline was seriously disturbed . . . Loyal workers liquidated the subversive activities...
...body was carried back to Masaryk's apartment, with Dr. Teply following. As he passed into the building, a black automobile drew up; out stepped Vaclav Nosek, Himmler of the Red Czech regime, and Dr. Vladimir Clementis, Deputy Foreign Minister (later arrested as a Western agent). They hurried into an elevator and got to Masaryk's apartment before Teply...
Other than Vaclav Trojan's excellent background music, the original production had no sound track, but Boris Karloff's dubbed-in narration helps to supplement and to speed up the action in the few spots that the film drags. Unfortunately, the lines sometimes draw attention away from the intricate, beautiful movements of the puppet actors...
Arden Heroy Albee '50, Geological Sciences Donald Roger Anderson '48, Government; Charles James Nice Balley '50; Comp. Phil & Classics; Wayne Goodwin Barnett '50. Economics; Robert Neelly Bellah '48, Social Relations; Vaclav Edvard Benes '50, Philosophy; Sterie Theodore Beza '50, Economics; Jonathan Peale Bishop '48, Hist. & Lit; Frank Lyman Bixby '50, Government; Donald Lee Bornstein '50, Biology; Wilbert Kennith Carter '49, Anthropology; Frederic Lincoln Chapia, 2d '50, History; Jay Denton Coffman '50, Biology; Martin Robert Coles '50, Social Relations; Preston Craig Combs '50, History; James Franklin Crafts, Jr. '50, Philosophy and English; Roger Conant Cramton '50, History...