Word: gellert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Feet. The meeting of delegates from 67 countries had hardly been called to order in the Hotel Gellert's ornate dining room when Mikhail Suslov, head of the Russian delegation and the Kremlin's chief ideologue, broke the first promise by launching a bitter attack on Mao Tse-tung's "slander campaign" against the conference. It also became quickly apparent that Moscow had already decided on the time and the place-November or December in Moscow-for a full-dress Communist summit meeting, and expected only a dutiful seconding from the Budapest assembly. As if all this...
...some 70,000 Hungarians traveled in the West, while 200,000 Westerners-mainly Austrians, Italians and West Germans, as well as 12,000 Americans-came in and spent money. Budapest, with its fine but expensive restaurants, its Magyar beauties in beehive hairdos, its "Rockola" jukebox parlors, its elegant Hotel Gellert surrounded by Jags, Mercedes and Alfa Romeos, is by far the most European city in the bloc...
Everybody throws a party: there is even a Ball of the Administration of Water Economy. At the Foresters' Ball in Budapest's Hotel Gellert fortnight ago, 1,500 guests turned up, including even a few foresters. Gypsies provide the music, sawing out Strauss waltzes, wild Hungarian csardas and songs by somebody listed as "Colporter." The balls go strong until dawn breaks over the Danube...
Budapest has removed all the visible evidence of the 1956 revolution. The Gellert Hotel (just refurbished), the Duna and the Grand, the city's best, cost $20.50 per day for two, including meals. The evening includes gypsy violins, and a capitalist 15% service charge is added to the bill to help remind the tourist that Europe is Europe...