Word: budapest
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...comparison with the old days, when Magyar aristocrats would spit on a 100-forint note (worth about $12.50), slap it on a gypsy's forehead, and demand passionate violin-playing until the spittle dried and the note fell off. But all things considered, it is gay enough. At Budapest's Press Ball last week, young men in stovepipe trousers and girls in daringly décolleté dresses performed a writhing twist that onlookers pointed to with a touch of pride as their own "dirty twist." For the monster masked balls that punctuate the season, probably...
...this were to happen? Is the U.S. really ready to go to their aid-even at the expense of undertaking military action against the Cuba-based Russians? During the Kennedy-Khrushchev dialogue that arose in the October crisis, the President warned that the U.S. would not tolerate a Budapest in Cuba. What he meant was that the U.S. would intervene if Russia attempted to put down, as it did in Hungary, a Cuban revolt against Castro...
...Communist Partygoers this has been a busy winter on the social circuit. Since November, the comrades have held party congresses in Sofia and Budapest, Prague and Rome. This week the current season winds up in East Berlin with the most crucial meeting of them all, to be attended by none other than Party Favorite Nikita Khrushchev...
...rule, to deny asylum to foreigners in embassies abroad unless the person is in "imminent danger from mob violence." Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, Roman Catholic Primate of Hungary, was considered to qualify "under exceptional circumstances" when he won sanctuary in the U.S. legation during the 1956 uprising in Budapest, where he still lives...
...Russians over their withdrawal from Cuba that it used a new technique for its philippics : each sentence was followed by a burst of martial music. With or without brass accompaniment, the discord between Moscow and Peking reached a crescendo last week, and no one any longer pretended harmony. In Budapest, addressing a congress of the Hungarian Communist Party, Moscow Delegate Otto Kuusinen. 81, oldest member of Khrushchev's Presidium, denounced a Red Chinese visitor two seats away: "Bigmouthed extreme leftist critics are bravely brandishing their verbal weapons before world imperialism." But when the chips were down in Cuba, Kuusinen...