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Died. Noel Haviland Field, 66, sometime U.S. State Department official (1926-36) and a mysterious figure in cold war politics; in Budapest. Urbane and multilingual, the London-born, Harvard-educated descendant of an American Quaker family left State in 1936 to work for the League of Nations, and later became wartime European head of the Unitarian Service Committee's relief activities. Fired from that post because of allegations that he was sympathetic to Communists, Field went to Prague, and three weeks before the beginning of the Alger Hiss trial was abducted to Hungary by Communist agents. He was stigmatized...
...articulate theoretician who prefers to be called a craftsman rather than a painter, Vasarely z was born in Hungary in 1908. He ° made a stab at medical studies. ; then signed up at the Budapest I Bauhaus, which had been established by the painter Bortnyik ' after a visit to Germany. In 1930, he went to Paris. There, he was able to make a living as a draftsman for several large publicity firms. He kept up his own experimenting on the side...
Finding Money. The airlines are 'particularly active hotel builders. Inter-Continental, which is owned by Pan American World Airways, is building in Prague and Bucharest, and this month the 360-room Duna Inter-Continental opened in Budapest. Hilton International, which is owned by Trans World Airlines, this year will add four more hotels from Abu Dhabi to Zurich to its chain of 51 in 33 countries. United Air Lines plans to acquire Seattle-based Western International Hotels to form another formidable travel and lodging combine. An American Airlines subsidiary has just opened the 21-story Chosun in Seoul...
...past year, rumors have been reaching the West that Rakosi is very much alive and living with his Mongolian wife in Southern Siberia. There have also been reports that Rakosi, now 78 and ailing, is anxious to go home to die. According to reports from Budapest, the Hungarian Central Committee last week decided that the old Stalinist would be allowed to return on the condition that he refrain from political activities. Hungarian Leader Janos Kadar has achieved such a measure of economic and political stability that Rakosi's return no longer poses any threat...
...passengers can never be sure where they are going to land, especially in winter. The airlines fly regardless of the weather at their destination and frequently have to detour to other cities in order to land. One recent Bulgarian Balkan Airlines flight, destined for Vienna, set down in Budapest. The pilot disappeared, the agent said it was his day off, and the Hungarian airport staff declined to help the passengers. After eleven hours of negotiation, some passengers wangled transit visas and a car for the 160-mile drive to Vienna...