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Died. Ferenc Fricsay, 48. energetic and far-ranging Hungarian-born conductor, at one time or another director of the Budapest and Munich State Operas, frequent guest conductor with the Salzburg Festival, Milan's La Scala and orchestras throughout Europe, but best known for his precise, cold-fire style that in the early 1950s raised the Berlin Radio Symphony to rank as one of Europe's best; in Basel, Switzerland...
...pitiful showing, he reportedly sacked hot-tempered Army Commander General Norbert ("Napoleon") Moké, relied chiefly on a force of 200 or 300 white mercenaries for a possible last-ditch stand. But apparently even the mercenaries left something to be desired. Two whites, a Belgian and a Hungarian-born U.S. Army deserter who were captured by the Indians at the Lufira River, scorned the South Africans and Rhodesians with whom they fought as "big bug-out artists." The Katangese, they said, "ran even before the first shot...
Fermi let the reaction run on for 28 minutes, then ordered it stopped. Hungarian-born Physicist Eugene Wigner brought out a bottle of Chianti. Fermi sent out for paper cups. Nobody offered a toast-the moment was too solemn for that. Wrote Physicist Samuel K. Allison, a top Fermi assistant, in a recent article: "All of us in the laboratory knew that with the advent of the chain reaction the world would never be the same again...
Power to Spare. The real standouts, however, were Tenor Sandor Konya as Walther and Baritone Otto Wiener, who was making his Met debut in the role of Sachs. Hungarian-born Tenor Konya displayed a voice that had warmth, agility and power to spare; in his last act Prize Song he came as close as any man can to stopping a Wagnerian opera in its tracks. Baritone Wiener did not have a voice of flogging power, but he dominated the stage by sheer dramatic invention; he made Sachs a completely human figure...
...Hungarian-born scientist, now director of the Institute for Muscle Research at Woods Hole, said that he was speaking to the public "for the second time in 25 years" partly because "there is an enormous vested interest in armaments and none in peace; moral concepts seem to carry no weight in politics...