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...after a dispute with General Manager Rudolf Bing). As a hedge against the possibility of stirring up any such disputes in the Cleveland, Szell demanded and received assurance that the board would give him "the means of making this orchestra second to none." The board provided the means, and Budapest-born George Szell, a World War II immigrant to the U.S., created the orchestra...
...regime of Hungarian Puppet Janos Kadar is regarded by the U.S. with revulsion. Ever since Kadar was installed by Soviet bayonets that snuffed out the 1956 revolution, the U.S. conducts almost no trade relations with Hungary, maintains a skeleton legation and only a chargé d'affaires in Budapest. In addition, on the motion of the U.S., the U.N. General Assembly every year schedules the Hungarian question for debate, receives a report from the U.N.'s special representative, New Zealand's Sir Leslie Munro, on the continuing suppression of human rights and freedom by Soviet occupation forces...
Invited to Budapest was Acting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, who apparently accepted despite the fact that Hungary still stands officially condemned by the U.N. (Thant's predecessor, Dag Hammarskjold, had refused a similar invitation in 1957.) At the same time, a group of 29 Western newsmen who had toured Hungary for five days were greeted effusively by Deputy Premier Gyula Kallai, who hinted, over apricot brandy and pastry, that the Hungarian government might permit Josef Cardinal Mindszenty to leave his sanctuary in the U.S. legation, where he took refuge in November 1956, if the U.S. is prepared...
...BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET appears in Jordan Hall Sunday...
This and other findings by Von Bėkėsy have given ear specialists new ways to distinguish between different forms of human deafness, which may be important in deciding treatment. After he left Budapest, Von Bėkėsy spent two years at Stockholm's Caroline Institute, which awarded the prize. Then he moved to the U.S., now works in Harvard's Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory where, still experimenting, he has built a model of the cochlea big enough to hold...