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Fighting on the wrong side in World War I, Hungary emerged from the peace shorn of most of its ancient conquests. The new states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were created out of what had once been St. Stephen's realm. Rumania got a large slice, and the Hungarian nation was reduced to a puny third of the Carpathian basin where Arpad had made his home a millennium earlier. Its predominantly Magyar population of 8,354,400 was 75% Roman Catholic, 20% Calvinist, and the balance Greek Orthodox, Uniate, Lutheran and Jewish. In 1919, amid the anarchy of defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: THE LAND & THE PEOPLE | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...body around stabilized feet and therewith dance a jig, plant a fist in a face, throw an opponent in wrestling or hurl a projectile with accuracy." Prometheus was capable of doing all these things, and his dexterity enabled him to fashion crude stone tools with a cutting edge to slice up his victims after he killed them. Strangely, he often seemed to prefer to cut off the heads of animals or fellow man-apes, leaving the bodies to rot in the veld. This may have been because he had a taste for brains (he frequently bored a small hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Early Cousin | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...hanging on a wooden cross. There were nails in his hands and feet, and lines of pain in his face. All at once Marcelino was afraid no longer. "You look hungry." he said. "Wait, I'll be back." Marcelino ran down to the kitchen, stole a slice of bread, ran back to the upper room and held up the bread for The Big Man to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 26, 1956 | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...Wind, The Wizard of Oz.), the leasing of MGM's film library to TV (returns to date: $26 million). Loew's overall 1955 profits amounted to $5,311.733, or just 16% of the total profits of Hollywood's Big Six moviemakers, v. Loew's 32% slice in 1950, when profits were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Loew Blow | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...University's sole participant in Cambridge city government has threatened a taxpayer's suit if City Manager John J. Curry attempts to slice the 1957 school department budget...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Dean to Sue If City Cuts School Funds | 11/10/1956 | See Source »

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