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...York City, the Todaro Bros, specialty shop for imported pasta, meat and cheese has just doubled in size. Lenox Square, one of Atlanta's tonier shopping centers, has just added a whole corridor of gourmet stores like The Best of Europe, which is run by a Czechoslovakian couple and features ten kinds of sausages, as well as ten salamis, and homemade sauerkraut. Even Sears has concluded that the heartland is ready for its version of haute cuisine. The company's Christmas catalogue this year has 14 pages of ads for such delicacies as Yugoslavian ham and Manzanilla olives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fat Times for Fancy Foods | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

With the news of some kind of a meeting out, Young decided to call on Israel's U.N. Ambassador Yehuda Blum, a Czechoslovakian-born expert on international law. What Young especially wanted to accomplish, he said, was to assure the Israelis that they were wrong to feel that "there was some grand conspiracy to change our policy toward the P.L.O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Fall of Andy Young | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...himself into a strong all-surface player...has a very solid, consistent game, if not too flashy...has no glaring weaknesses, with strong groundstrokes and volleys, and a good kick-serve...a smart doubles player, and match-tough in both singles and doubles from long years of competition...of Czechoslovakian descent, joints Chaikovsky as second Slavic member of team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Faces to Watch | 4/7/1978 | See Source »

...century, on Chile's frontier. His first poems were imbued with the wilderness, the beauty he saw more than the harshness that was a way of life. A father unsympathetic to his creative urges led Neruda to change his name. He unknowingly adopted that of a famous Czechoslovakian poet, Jan Neruda...

Author: By Margaret A. Shapiro, | Title: The Song Was Not in Vain | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

...perfume ad; and landing a one-line part on a John Lennon-Yoko Ono record album. Prime Cut, which featured Spacek as a piece of hollow-eyed jailbait, did at least manage to get across a little of her country-fresh, city-smudged sensuality. Spacek (the name is Czechoslovakian, and is pronounced to rhyme with "basic") looks a little like a White Rock girl who slipped off the soda bottle to spend a summer in the old Haight. That quality of naivete and simultaneous sophistication is an excellent tool for an actress, one that Spacek is clearly adept at using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Basic Spacek: Keeping Life Tidy | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

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