Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark figures, feet clinking with ice, shuffled across the frozen swampland, friendly Austrian voices greeted them and white handkerchiefs waved. All last week they came, every day thousands of refugees from stricken Hungary, peasant families, workers, students, young children with notes of identity pinned to their clothing. Once across the frontier ditch they would look back, and there would be a wild shouting of names. Women refugees kissed the first people they met, turned aside and wept. Men pulled off frozen-fingered gloves and shook hands...
...hiding in the fields by day, dodging Russian checkpoints. Again and again watchers from Austria saw refugees pinned down by Russian rifle fire at the frontier, captured and led away. One Soviet soldier who penetrated 400 yards into Austria in hot pursuit of a refugee was killed by an Austrian guard. Red army tanks shelled frontier bridges...
...shot of slivovitz, coffee spiked with brandy and a warm bed were on hand for every Hungarian who made it. Austrian hospitality was limitless, but Austrian housing and transport were fast becoming inadequate. By week's end an estimated 80,000 desperate Hungarians -80,000 witnesses against Russian Communism-had crossed the border to freedom. And they were still coming...
During the 1930s, most of the long-eared musical world was playing a waiting game. Famed Austrian Pianist Artur Schnabel was slowly recording his way through the Beethoven sonatas-Schnabel would no more hurry a recording session than he would a Beethoven tempo-and each new disk was an event. The whole series ranked as a masterpiece. Schnabel died in 1951, and his old 78 r.p.m. records soon became obsolete in the LP age. Last week Victor brought him back in his finest reincarnation, a package containing all 32 sonatas on 13 LPs, plus Schnabel's own meticulous edition...
...Unflagging Violence." Budapesters reaching the Austrian border say that the critical day was the day (Nov. 7) the U.N. debate on Hungary was postponed. Said o'ne: "Up to that time people had been watching from rooftops hoping to see U.S. planes arriving. After that everybody just quit." Some 1,500 rebels holding out in the ruins of the Royal Palace high on Buda Hill surrendered a highly defensible position. After a moving appeal for help from President Eisenhower the day after election ("If during his presidency he would stand by the oppressed, a blessing shall fall...