Word: budapests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budapest courtroom, seven anti-Communists stood trial, and went from accusation to judgment in five days (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Manhattan, eleven cocky Communists, also accused of conspiring against their own country, were in their fourth week of pretrial maneuvering, and a jury had not even been chosen. All the privileges of U.S. justice, including the opportunity of delay .and the doubtful right of sheer dallying with the court, was being given to them in its fullest measure...
...purebred, pedigreed dogs, which make up less than 1% of Hungary's 1,000,000 canine population. Henceforth, all mongrel males over one year old are to be sterilized. Dog owners who violate the law are liable to as much as six months in prison. Quipped one Budapest wit: "They want to kill the purebred humans and save the purebred dogs...
...village of Mikofalva (pop. 1,100), 100 miles northeast of Budapest, is populated chiefly by Kelemens and Kovacses, who belong to the Paloc tribe, one of Hungary's oldest and toughest. For centuries, Kelemens and Kovacses have married only Kovacses and Kelemens, thus keeping outsiders from the village. They have not kept out Communism. The village has 250 card-holding party members. All Mikofalvians-Kelemens, Kovacses and Communists-are Roman Catholics...
When a Porter song is finished, it generally has a few added staves that are the germ of an orchestral arrangement. He writes out the lyrics in a neat, printlike hand, to be typed by his secretary. First to hear the music is Budapest-born Dr. Albert Sirmay, chief editor of Chappell & Co., Porter's publishers, and also his musical secretary, friend and adviser for 22 years. While the composer plays the song on one of his baby grands, Dr. Sirmay jots down notes and sometimes warns him about cribbing inadvertently from the 400 songs (250 of them published...
...village mass meetings, those known to be deeply religious were commanded to read aloud fiery denunciations of the cardinal. If they refused, police were waiting to drag them away. Workers were threatened with instant dismissal for failure to sign anti-Mindszenty petitions. In Budapest, the Reds pressed six-year-old children into service, handed them placards which read: "Down with Mindszenty! Down with the black reactionary...