Word: czechoslovakian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...private talks, De Gaulle reportedly only echoed his public wish that Turkey "remain her own mistress" and conceded that Turkey's special "geographic, strategic and economic position" required it to remain an active NATO partner. That, for De Gaulle, was in itself quite a concession. Had the Czechoslovakian invasion not occurred, the general would certainly have done his best to persuade his hosts to drop out of NATO...
...bombing of North Viet Nam. Eighteen months later, after the President ordered a substantial reduction of the bombing, Ball agreed to return as U.N. ambassador. The high point of his brief tenure-shortest of any U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.-was tongue-lashing the Russians for their Czechoslovakian invasion...
...studios with vital transmitting equipment, which was soon wired up to put "Radio Free Czechoslovakia" on the air from a downtown Prague apartment. Because single transmitters are easy to track, engineers bounced their signal to transmitters at new locations every quarter hour, some of them supplied by the Czechoslovakian army. The underground radio network was such a total success that President Svoboda had to broadcast official statements through it last week; the Russian-occupied regular studios remained deserted and unused...
Papousek is a pediatrician. He serves on the staff of the Research Institute for Mother and Child Care, which is operated in Prague by the Czechoslovakian Ministry of Health. This summer he is teaching and researching at Harvard at the invitation of Jerome Bruner, professor of Psychology here...
...students translate only from a learned language into their native tongue. The real problem is matching the language talent with a particular skill area, since most assignments are translations of technical articles. IGS has had great luck with the translating bureau, making use of such unusual skills as a Czechoslovakian-speaking graduate student in East European physical science with secret security clearance. A company happened to be looking for someone with just this combination of skills. A student whose parents are Hungarian but who had lived in Germany was once asked to translate a marriage license from Hungarian into German...