Word: fenyvesi
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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They arrived here by plane and boat, on dark nights and on cold foggy mornings. "I always arrived everywhere at night," Fenyvesi remarks, while Heimler laments that "we coudn't even see the Statue of Liberty." Many of them were met by journalists and photographers. "My first impression of American," one refugee student relates, "was of American photographers and reporters. Their first act was to sit on the table or put their feet up. I thought this was a common American social custom...
Kilmer was outfitted with recreation halls, movies, good food, and comfortable barracks, which were "pleasant and warm," Fenyvesi recalls. "Everybody said 'That's America.'" he added. He was assigned to "a typical American family" in Washington: "a husband, a wife, two kids, one cocker spaniel, and a turtle." Others were assigned to similar places, or stayed with relatives...
After their arrival in the United States, the Hungarians started looking for work and college schalarships. Fenyvesi found employment in a printing office in Washington, which was doing work for Senator McClellan's labor investigating committee. In delivering reports, he met many of the the late Senator McCarthy. Heimler the late Senator McCarthy. Heinler worked in a shoe factory for a while, and then went to the University of Illinois for an English course, where he stayed in a fraternity house. He found the students there quiet, friendly, and had several dates with local sorority belles...
...students saw or were seen by the World University Service, which served as the liaison between them and universities which were becoming interested in offering scholarships to Hungarian students. Heimler and Fenyvesi were offered scholarships by Kirkland House, which raised $1200 for Heimler, and received an anonymous scholarships, which it gave to Charles...
...they choose Harvard? "A degree at Harvard would really be a great thing," Julius says, while Fenyvesi became convinced of the University's excellence after he visited Cambridge last spring. After he was here one day, he "learned to like Harvard and hate Yale, to like the CRIMSON and hate the Lampoon." He felt at first that Harvard might be too far away--"every Hungarian has the feeling that to go too far away is not good. We are a little country," he explains...