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...most recent crisis of note occurs in Hungary. Its capital city Budapest was plagued by its worst violence since the days of Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and Elvis Presley. The last time Budapest saw rioting of the same scale as it did in mid-September it was directed at the imperialism of the, now thankfully defunct, Soviet Union and was repressed at the cost of several thousand lives. The proximate cause of the most recent rioting, which left over a two hundred people injured and turned large sections of the capital city into a “battleground...
...DIED. Mickey Hargitay, 80, hunky Budapest-born athlete who rose to fame as a champion bodybuilder and actor whose films included Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, co-starring his then wife, screen siren Jayne Mansfield; in Los Angeles. In the mid-'50s the newly anointed Mr. Universe caught the eye of an aging Mae West, who hired him as one of eight loincloth-clad musclemen in her popular nightclub revue. He met Mansfield at a performance, where the impressed star is said to have told a waiter, "I'll have a steak and the man on the left...
...partisan root to the clashes as the country heads toward nationwide municipal elections on Oct. 1. In the aftermath of the demonstrations, police determined that a small coterie of right-wing football hooligans was responsible for the attacks and vandalism that caused close to €1 million in damage. Budapest Mayor Gabor Demszky says that the true nature of the violence was revealed on Monday night when rioters laying siege to the state TV building presented police with demands they wanted aired. "They said, 'We want Gyurcsány to resign,'" Demszky told Time, "and we want Fradi put back...
DIED. Mickey Hargitay, 80, hunky Budapest-born athlete who immigrated to the U.S. in the late 1940s and rose to fame as a champion bodybuilder and actor whose films included Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, co-starring his then wife, screen siren Jayne Mansfield (together, at left); in Los Angeles. In the mid-'50s the newly anointed Mr. Universe--whose daughter Mariska tearily thanked her dad onstage last month when accepting an Emmy for her role on NBC's Law & Order: SVU--caught the eye of an aging Mae West, who hired him as one of eight loincloth-clad musclemen...
...However inadvertently, Gyurcsany was "invoking a revolutionary spirit," said Laszlo Csaba, a professor of economics and European studies at Budapest's Central European University. "I think it shows that the situation here is serious, and that the Prime Minister has not taken into consideration the... popular revulsion that his words have created...