Word: budapests
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...refugees' confidence even more quickly by producing her International Passport of the Society of the Sacred Heart -an identification card issued by this world-circling order of nuns to traveling former students. Finding a young woman who had been a student at the Sacred Heart Convent in Budapest, Deirdre showed her card from the Sacred Heart Convent in Washington, D.C. After that, the Hungarians were convinced they were among friends...
...clearly demonstrated its ability to deal with the Middle Eastern crisis, it has even less to be proud of in Hungary. "When people heard that the General Assembly had postponed even for a few hours its debate [on Hungary]." said one escapee from Budapest, "a great number of the Freedom Fighters laid down their arms and surrendered...
...Communist Daily Worker had a rebellion on its own hands last week. Of its 30 staffers, four quit and 19 signed a petition protesting the paper's whitewash of Soviet brutality. Angriest of those who quit was its star correspondent, Peter Fryer, fresh from his assignment in Budapest itself. The others: Political Cartoonist "Gabriel" (real name: James Friell), Features Editor Malcolm MacEwan and Film Critic Patrick Goldring...
During Fryer's fortnight in Budapest, Worker readers saw only one of his dispatches, a wishy-washy interview with a British Communist living in Hungary. In his letter of resignation, published by the Worker when he threatened to "seek other means" of getting out the truth, Fryer disclosed that the dispatch had been heavily cut and two others had been killed altogether. Reason: they showed that Soviet intervention was "both criminal and unnecessary...
This first novel is the year's most beautifully written love story. Set in Budapest in the lost era between the two world wars, it begins with a casual pickup on the Danube Corso and ends in heartbreak as poignant as the last act of Camille. The book, like the play, is about a girl with tuberculosis, but Author Boros' Dame aux Camélias is no languishing tragedienne drowning in a sea of self-sacrifice. Instead, young Lalla is self-sufficient, cheeky, preoccupied not with "how to live but how to stay alive...