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...reluctant allies like a good common enemy, Soviet leaders may also hope to heal some of the deep splits among Eastern European nations by sounding alarms about neo-Nazism in West Germany. With the first planning session for its long-sought Communist summit scheduled to begin this week in Budapest, the Kremlin needs every bit of support it can muster from fellow Communist countries...
...Radcliffe student is being held under investigative arrest in a local jail in Budapest, Hungary, an official of the State Department revealed yesterday...
Ursula Nadasdy, the other cover researcher, was born in Budapest. She was only 13 when the Russians invaded Hungary in 1956 and her family tried to escape. The first time, they were caught only 500 yards from the Austrian border and jailed for three days. As soon as they were freed, the Nadasdys tried again. They slithered across a heavily patrolled highway on their bellies and managed to join friends and relatives in Vienna in time for Christmas. "When the revolution began," Ursula remembers, "Hungarians stopped complaining about the hardships of daily life. There really was a taste of freedom...
...inveterate prankster who used to break up his staid colleagues in the Budapest Quartet by inserting pictures of nude women between the pages of their scores. He is also an accomplished chef. One source of friction in his brief marriage to Actress Geraldine Page (1954-57) seems to have been her insistence on eating peanut-butter sandwiches; few would fault Sasha there...
Later, he emigrated to Germany with his cellist brother Mischa, who also was to become a member of the Budapest Quartet. Before starting his classical career in opera orchestras, Schneider earned money for violin lessons by playing in cafés. As a result, to this day he can dash off dozens of waltzes and gypsy airs from memory...