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...Squad. But as prosperous, labor-short Western Europe last week prepared for the summer flood of tourists, it was glaringly apparent that the sociologists had, as usual, guessed wrong. Instead of vanishing, or even declining in numbers, prostitutes swarmed in every European capital, from Copenhagen to Rome and from Budapest to London. The European economic miracle did in fact take some prostitutes off the streets-but only to put them in cars. The "klaxon girls'' of Milan cruise Cathedral Square in Lancias and Dauphines, discreetly tooting horns and flashing their headlights to attract men's attention...
Upstairs Bar. Even the Communist bloc has its problems with prostitution, while indignantly denying that it exists. In Hungary, Budapest's few whores are often booked up nights in advance by visiting Austrian and West German businessmen. "Elisabeth of the Duna," a witty little Magyar who adorns the upstairs bar of the Hotel Duna, is so famous that guards on the Austrian border ask travelers, "Have you anything to declare? Did you see Elisabeth...
...sentenced to life imprisonment on trumped-up charges of treason, espionage and black marketing. The Western world bled for the gaunt, tortured prelate, mechanically confessing his guilt for nonexistent crimes before an unfeeling judge. Briefly freed by the 1956 Hungarian uprising, Mindszenty fled to the U.S. legation in Budapest, and there he has stayed, a stubborn symbol of Christianity's incompatibility with Communism...
...Scherzo when he was 24, entranced by the windy sonorities of Richard Strauss, and he filled the work with rolling Straussian orchestrated sounds. But the scheduled 1905 premiere never took place. At the last moment, Bartok withdrew the Scherzo, because Hans Richter (who was to have led the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, with Bartok at the piano) had not had time to study and annotate the master score and there were many mistakes in copied parts. That same year, Bartok discovered folk music, and his infatuation with Strauss ended abruptly. There were no requests to revive his unplayed Scherzo, and Bartok...
After his death, in 1945, the Scherzo was found among his papers by his son Bela in Budapest. Today, like all of Bartok's music, it is embroiled in a discordant legal hassle between his heirs and the Manhattan lawyer who is executor of the estate and who has given Pianist Kentner exclusive performance rights to the Scherzo for the next two years...