Word: budapesters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...others: Second Lieut. Laszlo Tabori, 24, who shares the 1,500-meter record with Iharos; Captain Istvan Rozavolgyi, 26, 2,000-meter record holder; Textile Factory Worker Jozsef Kovacs, 29, who has tied the world record at 10,000 meters; Budapest Fireman Lajos Szentgali, 23, 800-meter specialist...
...rewriting of party history was still to come in the satellites. As one of the first acts of revision, the Hungarian Communist Eugene Varga last week wrote a laudatory article for Pravda on Bela Kun, the famous Hungarian revolutionary who ran a Soviet in Budapest for 133 bloody days in 1919. Varga did not mention that after he himself denounced Bela Kun as a "Trotskyite wrecker," the old revolutionary disappeared in Russia, never to be heard from again...
...noticeable help from British or American diplomacy. The opposition centered its fire on Greece's "humiliation" over Cyprus, needled Karamanlis unmercifully for "giving in to the British," for his "servility" to the U.S. Pointing to the Democratic Union's higher popular vote, Communist propagandists from Moscow to Budapest crowed that a majority of Greeks had "repudiated" Karamanlis' pro-Western government...
Died. Sir Alexander Korda, 62, British cinemogul (Rembrandt, The Red Shoes); of a heart attack; in London. Hungarian-born Korda made his first films in a shed on the outskirts of Budapest after World War I, in 1931 put the British film industry on the map with his The Private Life of Henry VIII, with a cast of unknown performers (Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon). He married Actress Oberon, lost a fortune, then bounded back with London Film Productions, Ltd., was knighted...
...This quality is half-humorously assumed, partly because of the tightlipped, tear-laden whine the instrument so easily develops in its upper register, partly because of the overenthusiastic use of that register by romantic composers. One cellist who does not deserve the description is the Chicago Symphony's Budapest-born Janos Starker, 31, who is unsentimentally aware that he is one of the world's finest cellists...