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...lunar flats. The amount of variation and polarization that occurs at different times of the lunar day will indicate whether the sun's rays are being scattered by tiny dust particles or by solid surface. "Within two or three months we should know definitely," says Professor Zdenek Kopal, who will take charge of the experiment. Meantime, says Cosmologist Gold, spaceship pilots are advised not to land on the lunar plains...
Excommunication. In the absence of precise knowledge, the Vatican has leaned over backward to avoid alarmist or inflammatory statements. In February, Zdenek Fierlinger, Czech Vice Premier, published an article in the weekly Parallèle 50 (named for Prague's latitude) in which he boasted that two Czech bishops, "loyal" to the government, had ordained as priests the first group produced by Catholic seminaries since control of these institutions was taken over by the Communist government. At the time, Rome refrained from any suggestion that the officiating bishops acted improperly...
Czech Reds had always claimed that the pro-Communist coup of February 1948 was a spontaneous uprising by the masses to thwart a reactionary conspiracy. Last week the well-worn lie, its purpose served, was discarded. With Czechoslovakia's police state well entrenched, Deputy Prime Minister Zdenek Fierlinger* could afford to tell the truth: "Plans for a new people's democratic Czechoslovakia were made in Moscow" even before World War II ended. "Stalin in the Kremlin, with ingenious foresight, drew the outlines of a new Czechoslovakia, as well as of a brotherly new Poland...
...until next morning that Manager Vodicka realized that Zdenek Marek, his tall center forward, had deserted team and country, the ninth member of his group to do so in four months. Two had stayed behind in Switzerland, and six more had vanished mysteriously after they took a plane in Paris, ostensibly to fly to London. What made matters sticky for Vodicka was that he had unwittingly helped Marek to desert. Usually he kept the team's passports locked up, but when Marek asked for his "to change some foreign currency," Vodicka handed the passport over. Moaned Vodicka: "This will...
...this month when the Social Democratic Party "merges" with the Communist Party. At the plant of venerable Právo Lidu (People's Right), 55-year-old Social Democratic Party organ, 500 newspaper workers assembled in a protest rally. Shouts of "Strike!" went up. Social Democratic Deputy Premier Zdenek Fierlinger, who hurried to the Právo Lidu plant to try to smooth things out, was received bitterly. Said Fierlinger: "Things will be better for all of us." Cried one worker: "We Socialists helped the Communists to publish one of their papers at our plant. This is what...