Word: gyula
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dumplings). The economic liberalization that is sweeping the area is difficult-and even dangerous-for Communist rulers to resist. Last week Hungary made a major move toward liberalization by appointing Jenö Fock, 51, a noted economist, to serve as the country's new Premier. Fock, who replaces Gyula Kállai, 57, is the author of Hungary's "New Economic Mechanism," which goes into effect next year. He is expected to steer a middle course between the conservatives, who want to keep the economy in the firm grip of the party planners, and those who advocate...
...rather basic theory of alienation, or so it seemed to Hungarian Poet Gyula Illyes, 63, at a convention of 200 European bards in Budapest. "The division of humanity characterizing our century began with a very prosaic object: the bathtub," proclaimed Illyes. "One part of humanity bathed and the other did not, and these two categories may not sleep in the same bed or eat at the same table." And things got worse, said the poet, when automobiles came along-"those monsters, those separators, little steel cages, the driver sealed in glacial indifference." Alas, the reasonably well-bathed poets listened...
What was up in the Kremlin? Into Moscow last week flew Hungary's Party Secretary Janos Kadar and Premier Gyula Kallai. Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka and Jozef Cyrankiewicz, already in town, suddenly decided to prolong their visit, and Czech President Antonin Novotny was due to arrive early this week. The presence of so many Red leaders set off a flurry of speculation. Had they been called to prepare the groundwork for expulsion of Red China from the international Communist movement? Was it some sort of a summit session on East-West relations or nuclear arms control...
...Hungary's Gyula Zsivotsky: a new world hammer-throw record, hurling the 16-lb. weight 241 ft. 11 in. to top Harold Connally's three-month-old mark by more than 8 ft.; at a meet in Debrecen, Hungary. Unprepared for such a contingency, meet officials spent a frantic hour searching for a 100-meter measuring tape- required for gauging record throws. They finally borrowed one from the local water board...
Retaining his most powerful position as party First Secretary, Kadar, 53, handed the premiership to black-haired, moon-faced ex-Journalist Gyula Kallai, 55, his lifelong friend, sometime jail-mate (between 1951 and 1954, under Stalinist Matyas Rakosi), and longtime foreign affairs adviser, who since 1960 has been Deputy Premier. Kadar also reshuffled his Politburo, replaced creaking party stalwarts with younger men. Janos Brutyo, 54, and Sandor Caspar, 48, two tough administrators, were named respectively president and secretary-general of the trade unions, and Zoltan Komocsin, 42, editor of the Communist organ Nepszabadsag, became party director of foreign affairs...