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Other experiences were similar. Charles Fenyvesi, a sophomore in Kirkland House, decided to escape after he had been caught and released by the Russians. "According to law, we should have been shot," Fenyvesi recalls, "and so we sat waiting for two hours to be either shot or deported...
Once across and into Austria, Fenyvesi and the other new refugees found helpful villagers who led them to the big camps that were forming to take care of the large influx. "A half hour after we crossed we started to court nice Austrian girls," Fenyvesi recalls, "and we felt like human beings again." a chance to read certain books I other-wise couldn't read, and it gave me a hope that I could live in this country. Besides, I felt that a middle-class boy should learn English...
...refugee is Charles Fenyvesi, who was approved yesterday as the second Hungarian to enter Kirkland by a committee of faculty members connected with the House. He traveled to Cambridge early this week for an interview with the group. He was chosen over several other applicants for his "intelligence, quickness, command of the language, and command of himself," Carl Kaysen, associate profesor of Economics, and chairman of the interviewing committee, said last night...
...Fenyvesi left Hungary in December after he had participated in the anti-Communist People's Guard, which helped to maintain order in Budapest during the Revolution. "I looked very warlike," he remarked, during his visit here...
...Fenyvesi in now living in Washington, D.C., working for a printing firm which is presently mimeographing Dave Beck's testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations. "Dave Beck is a racketeer," Fenyvesi said angrily...