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...Along the way Harken began to suffer from the collapse of oil prices, which depressed the value of assets it had acquired. Yet Quasha managed to attract a steady flow of investment capital from the likes of Harvard's endowment fund, Hungarian-born superinvestor George Soros and the South African liquor and tobacco barons, the Rupert family. Despite the company's sloppy bookkeeping and long-shot prospects, all except Soros continue to hold large blocks of stock. "Alan Quasha will charm your pants off," explains a former Harken executive. "You will take your wallet out and empty it into anything...
When George Lorinczi, a Hungarian-born Washington lawyer, visited Budapest last month, he heard racial epithets on the street directed at people around him. In the anti-Communist tirades of self-professed liberals, there were pointed references to the predominance of Jews in the regime of dictator ! Matyas Rakosi in the early 1950s. "People are now rolling words off their tongues that would have made them jailbait two years ago," says Lorinczi...
...jump. BIZ, London's Picture Post (edited by Stefan Lorant) and the elegant French magazine Vu drew upon a breed of independent artist-photographer, often with one foot in Bohemia, to capture the arresting aspect of the everyday. Among the foremost practitioners were the German emigre Tim Gidal and Hungarian-born Andre Kertesz, whose enigmatic views of the Eiffel Tower and Paris streets imbued any human presence with an ephemeral tension...
Physicist Edward Teller has a reputation for thinking big: during World War II, as other Manhattan Project scientists were racing to build the first atom bomb, the Hungarian-born Teller was already working on the hydrogen bomb. While the H-bomb was both a technological tour de force and a hellishly effective weapon, however, one of Teller's more recent enthusiasms -- the X- ray laser -- could turn out to be an expensive dud. That possibility has ignited a fire storm of accusations that has set off a federal investigation into recent goings-on at the University of California's Lawrence...
...Jones index of 30 industrial stocks ended the week at 2235.37, after skyrocketing by 66.47 points one day and dropping by 51.13 the next. Amid the ups and downs, no investor has done better than George Soros, 56. During the past two years alone, the soft-spoken, Hungarian-born manager of a fund known as Quantum has amassed a staggering $1.5 billion in profits for himself and a small group of foreign investors. Says Barton Biggs, global strategist for Morgan Stanley: "Soros really is a genius, our all-time champion...