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...reading. Robert Frost made an annual pilgrimage for ten years. Britain's T. S. Eliot made it a top stop. So have scores of other writers -Robert Graves, Thomas Mann, E. E. Cummings, Joyce Cary, Wallace Stevens, Aldous Huxley, Marianne Moore, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, John Cheever. The Budapest String Quartet first thrived there. So did Choreographer Agnes de Mille, who says that without the Y modern dance would be ancient history...
This week, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives in Budapest to celebrate the 19th anniversary of the victory, he will find the army of liberation still in position. And for good reason: in 1956 it took a brutal commitment of Russian tanks and terror to crush the valiant attempt of the Hungarians to throw out their "liberators...
...Today, Budapest's modest traffic jams are made up as much of Chevrolet Impalas and Mercedes 220s as of Russian-built Volgas and Zims. Last year, more than 100,000 Hungarians were allowed to travel past the minefields and machine-gun towers that still guard the border to visit the West. Western authors can now be found in Budapest bookstores (current rage: Graham Greene), and the city's 200,000 television sets roar to the guns of U.S. westerns. Operetta buffs were recently treated to a fine production of Csokolj Meg, Katam-better known as Kiss Me, Kate...
...city in a firm but inconspicuous grip. More than 40,000 Russian soldiers are stationed in Hungary, and though they keep to their camps, their armor is always ready to roll. Many Hungarians hoped that Khrushchev's visit might be timed to a withdrawal of Soviet arms. Budapest officials doubted that this will happen...
...Hungarians who survived the dreadful three months of the World War II battle of Budapest, the army's presence and the memory of the cloud of death that hung over the city in April 1945 are inseparable. Not until that army leaves will "liberation" end and freedom begin...