Completed the following sentence: After five years of waiting for a permit to travel abroad, Pitra's partner Irena Bryndová came to New York at the beginning of August 1968. <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk>
Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia<unk> With the prospect of long-term residence in the United States, Irena Bryndová found work as a fabric designer and in October 1969 was married to Svatopluk Pitra.