Word: gyula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Nixon's trip to Peking in 1972 that normal U.S.China ties were inevitable, the Soviets were jolted by the abrupt way Carter made the move and the sudden prospect of U.S. arms sales to Peking. Diplomatic surprise is one thing that the Kremlin's aging leadership abhors. Explains Gyula Jozsa, a Kremlinologist at Cologne's Institute of Eastern Studies: "The Soviets can see the logic of the need for the U.S. to recognize Peking. But what worries them is: How far and how quickly will subsequent relations develop between Washington and Peking?" An analyst at the Rand Corp. points...
Brassai was born Gyula Halasz in 1900 in Brasso, a village in Hungarian Transylvania. He arrived in Paris in 1924 after art studies in Budapest and Berlin, determined to make his fortune as a painter. Not until the age of thirty did he hold a camera. His interest in photography grew quickly, however, as he discovered that with a camera he could capture and portray the restless energy and labyrinthine density of Paris. Finally he could fix forever the flickering images he saw in the subterranean night world of cafes and bars that so fascinated him. He became a photographer...
...GYULA BANDO...