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Before World War II ended, Malinovsky had plenty of practice in improvising offensives. As commander of a Ukrainian army group, he directed the capture of Bucharest, Budapest and Vienna. Then, shifted to command of Russia's Far Eastern armies, he mopped up Japanese forces in Manchuria in the "one week war" that Stalin launched against a Japan already negotiating surrender...
...Khrushchev went from boos and cries of "Budapest" in Bordeaux to cheers and waving flags in heavily Communist Marseilles, the feeling spread that he had won no new friends, had overplayed his hand, and was getting nowhere in trying to speak over the 6 ft. 4 in. Charles de Gaulle to the French people...
...both conductor and soloist, the performance was an act of devotion. Hungarian-born Fritz Reiner studied under Bartok at the Academy of Music in Budapest. Early in his career, Reiner started championing Bartok's works. "We were both from the same stable," he says, and adds in a rare burst of humility: "Of course, he was the great Bela Bartok, and I was only the little Fritz Reiner...
Mikoyan's mustached smile turned to an angry frown as he laid down the Communist view of history. The Red government of Rakosi, he said, did many wrong things and came into opposition with the Hungarian people; then reactionaries and villainous Americans started the revolution. And when Budapest asked the Soviet Union for help, it responded, because "of course, we help our friends." As for the "Hungarian students here in Oslo, I would only say that their hands are stained with blood...
Outside Skeleton. It is from the child, temporally most remote from death, that the experts got some of their most basic data. Psychologist Maria H. Nagy (now at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center) studied 378 children in Budapest in the late 19303, believes that, with minor differences, her findings can be applied to Western civilization generally...