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...should have sent in neutral teams (perhaps Swiss) with U.N. banners declaring every city, town and countryside neutral and free territory under the jurisdiction and protection of the U.N. at the request of the Nagy government. The defeat of Hungary is not only a defeat of a brave people but a defeat for the free world...
Resistance. Puppet and policemen alike found it hard to control a desperate and brave people. At Csepel the workers decided to return to work, but only to produce 3,000 bicycles to replace those looted from workers by police and soldiers. At many factories, when a few workers reported, no work was done for lack of power. The coal miners, most defiant of the strikers, cut only enough coal for essential services, and threatened to flood the mines if further coerced. Many miners in the Tatabanya and Pecs areas had taken to the hills and were operating as armed guerrillas...
...Louisville Orchestra's brave project for commissioning contemporary music, backed by a $500,000 Rockefeller grant, is in trouble. Its quota - 40-odd new works played and recorded every year-has faded to a mere seven this season. Reason: only 1,021 of the planned 6,000 record subscriptions have been sold, partly because of shoestring promotion. But Louisville still has i) an orchestra that has learned to read modern scores better than any other in the U.S., and 2) a fat bag of new music, some of it masterly, e.g., Roger Sessions' Idyll of Theocritus, Elliott Carter...
...Navajos, one of the poorest Indian tribes (per capita income in 1955: $420), the cash from the auctions added up to $423 per capita, will double the tribal income this year, provide money for new reservation roads, schools and irrigation projects. Said a Navajo brave: "Let the white man have the oil. My people want irrigated lands. We now know how we can get them...
...devilment. One day Brother Cookie determined to put an end to it. "See that staircase," he told Marcelino. "You must never go up it. Never! If The Big Man up there sees you, he'll take you away-forever!" Marcelino was frightened, but he was brave too. and more than anything he was curious. One day he went sneaking up the stairs to see if The Big Man was really there. At the top there was a door. Shaking in his bones, the little boy pushed. The door creaked. Marcelino's heart pounded; his jaw dropped...