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...lived in the small Hungarian village of Balatönfokájar since the 16th century. His father Mores left the village in search of opportunities in the grain business and then real estate ("both with very little success," his son recalls); he set himself up in Budapest, where Gyuri (the diminutive of the Hungarian version of George) Solti was born...
Today the Kurtzes live in a chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland. Shaffer ranges out from Budapest to Berne, Australia to South Africa, to give 50 to 60 concerts and recitals a year. From the front door, she can also ski directly to the lift lines of the Gstaad ski area. This is more important than it might seem. A flutist must have the wind and physical stamina of a well-conditioned athlete...
...North Vietnamese were active too. One day last week North Vietnamese envoys in Prague, Warsaw, Bucharest, Belgrade, Budapest and East Berlin simultaneously requested audiences with the party leaders of the Eastern European Communist nations, all of whom had been pressing Hanoi to make a settlement. Presumably the East Europeans were pleased with the briefings, for the North Vietnamese diplomats drove back to their embassies with renewed promises of bloc support...
...chosen as president on the retirement of John Sloan Dickey, a master builder who had quintupled Dartmouth's endowment to $114 million, Kemeny was widely regarded as a near genius in the field of computers and math. Now 46, he is the son of a grain dealer from Budapest who fled Nazi anti-Semitism to settle in New York in 1940. A star student in advanced math and philosophy at Princeton, Kemeny was drafted to work on the Manhattan Project, and later became Albert Einstein's assistant. In 1953, when he was 27 and a teacher of logic...
...obviously bound to be uncertain. Yemen's decision to renew its ties with the U.S. brought howls of outrage from Cairo. Kadar, meanwhile, advised Rogers: "Please remember Hungary's tragic history, its geographical position and its lack of resources." This seemed to mean that even though Budapest seeks closer relations with Washington, it may be forced from time to time to stiffen its attitude in order to appease Moscow...