Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World of Margarac & Mestrovic. In Pennsylvania's steel country, men tell of Hungarian Joe Margarac, who could lift a locomotive with his finger, and his rival, the Slav Steve Mestrovic, who could twist 500-lb. bars of iron with his bare hands; they boiled their eggs in a Bessemer converter and combed their hair with traveling cranes. Margarac and Mestrovic belonged to legend, to Pittsburgh and to an industrial development that had its counterparts but never its equal anywhere in the world...
Laszlo Rajk, former Hungarian Foreign Minister, on trial for plotting to overthrow Hungary's government, was close to the end of the road. The trial itself, charged Marshal Tito last week, was part of a plot to overthrow the Yugoslav government. In a firm diplomatic note, Tito called the trial a "juridical burlesque...
Rajk said that he then agreed to join the plot against Rakosi and other Hungarian Communists. "Rankovich told me,"Rajk said, "to annihilate them physically; that is, in plain Hungarian, to kill them...
After Rajk, Lieut. General Gyorgy Palffy, chief of staff of the Hungarian army, stepped to the courtroom microphone. As he talked, listeners recalled last May Day when General Palffy, resplendent in dress uniform and riding a white horse, reviewed his troops in Hero's Square. "Good morning, comrades," Palffy had shouted. A thousand voices answered "Good morning, Comrade General." Palffy had drawn his saber to salute the flag. The saber slipped out of his hand, clattered to the ground...
...Owlish, Hungarian-born Dr. Somogyi is a biochemist in the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis. But he is not an M.D., and so is not allowed to treat patients or see them professionally unless a cooperative doctor leads them into Somogyi's office for consultation. But, "looking over the shoulders of physicians," as he puts it, Somogyi has had a hand in treating 4,000 new cases of diabetes in the last 14 years. He has also been consulted in 300 to 400 other cases which had been previously "mismanaged" (by his standards) by other doctors...