Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Max Kiss, 84, inventor of Ex-Lax, the world's first and still largest selling (1966 company sales: over $10 million) palatable purgative, a Hungarian immigrant who worked his way through pharmacy college, then proceeded to rescue countless kiddies from the ghastly grasp of castor oil by mixing a tasteless powder called phenolphthalein and chocolate flavoring into Ex-Lax, a name he adapted from a Hungarian parliamentary term (ex lex), meaning an extraordinary suspension of governmental activity; of a heart attack; in Atlantic Beach...
...breakup of empires has always given rise to new states. After World War I, the Paris Peace Conference put together Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia from disparate (and still not fully united) remnants of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and independent Serbia. The collapse of the colonial empires after World War II brought about a rash of such arbitrary creations. Many ex-colonial countries had sovereignty conferred on them by their former masters under the U.N.'s aegis, without the often salutary experience of having to fight for their freedom. Such countries are apt to be based on arbitrary old colonial boundaries...
...Hungarian Immigrant Morris Rich was a naturalized optimist. Who else would have opened a dry goods store in devastated Atlanta, Ga., in the grim postwar year of 1867. Yet even Rich would be amazed to see how far his "M. Rich Dry Goods Store" has come. Last week, presiding over its centennial-year annual meeting, Grandson Richard H. Rich, 65, the present chairman and chief executive, ticked off statistics. Rich's last year rang up sales of $148 million for a 12.9% gain over the previous year (v. 3% for U.S. retailers in general) and showed earnings...
...Though a Rumanian minister and another Hungarian head of mission defected to the U.S. in the '40s, neither was as high in his own government as Radványi, who held the coveted rank of career ambassador...
...that theme, Physicist Rabi, 68, who was born in the old Austro-Hungarian empire, grew up in New York's Lower East Side and went on from a Ph.D. at Columbia University to become one of the nation's pioneer nuclear researchers, ended 37 years of teaching at Columbia. A 1944 Nobel prizewinner, Rabi developed the molecular-beam magnetic-resonance theories that laid the foundation for microwave radar, lasers, masers and modern radio astronomy. He was a consultant to the Manhattan Project that built the first atom bomb, and was one of the men responsible for creating...