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...born in Budapest. His father was a tenor in the Royal Hungarian Opera chorus, and his mother an amateur pianist. At three, Nyiregyházi could reproduce on a toy piano the melodies that his father sang. At four, he began piano lessons and composing. His first piece, he recalls, was "sort of Japanese-my father had been singing Madama Butterfly-and in the key of A-minor...
With typical Magyar verve, Hungarians have managed to bring a sense of style and vitality to their brand of socialism, making it the gem of Marxism-Leninism. Fashionably tailored men and chic women bustle through Budapest's business and shopping districts, while imported autos (mostly East German Wartburgs and Soviet-made Zhigulis and Ladas) jam its streets. The city's elegant cafés and restaurants serve rich pastries and gourmet meals without the sullen service all too common in other East European cities. Billboards and newspapers (although not television) display imaginative and colorful ads urging consumers...
...Economic Mechanism, the blueprint for Hungary's unique approach to a Marxist-Leninist economy. Hungary has carried out many of the reforms for which Czechoslovakia was branded a heretic by Moscow in 1968. "We haven't talked about 'socialism with a human face,' " says one Budapest journalist. "We simply put it into effect...
Hundreds of Czechs, Hungarians, Poles and Bulgarians are also aiding Ethiopia's forces. Technicians from Prague and Budapest have supervised the arrival of large quantities of weapons, such as AK-47 automatic rifles and machine guns, made by Warsaw Pact countries. Transporting arms and men from Eastern Europe to Ethiopia formerly presented only minor problems, since they were flown from their staging area in Libya over an unsuspecting Sudan. Until they were expelled in May, Russian advisers in Khartoum had tampered with the Sudanese radar network to create a blind spot in its coverage,'in effect creating...
Most of the exteriors were shot in Hungary, and the streets of old Budapest served for the Moscow and Petersburg of a century ago. The only missing ingredient, an important one, unfortunately, is a sense of Russian spaciousness, a feeling not so much of a country as of a vast sea of land...