Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PENNYWHISTLERS: Folksongs of Eastern Europe (Nonesuch). For those who like their folk music ethnic, a group of seven American girls offers a pastiche of infrequently heard items from the banks of the Danube: Bulgarian planting songs, Hungarian love lyrics, Croatian hymns. Many of them are sung a capella-sustained by the septet's own strong harmony...
...protocol was merely the latest in a long line of negotiating successes that have earned Casaroli the Roman nickname of "the divine diplomat." In recent years, hardworking, hard-traveling Diplomat Casaroli has obtained the release from confinement of Czechoslovakia's Josef Cardinal Beran, arranged an agreement with the Hungarian government by which Pope Paul VI was able to fill a number of vacant dioceses, and negotiated a treaty with Tunisia regulating the rights of the Catholic minority in that Moslem country...
...Sciences composed mostly of physicists. All are devoted to "pure" rather than practical research-so pure that the physicists do not even have laboratories. One of the few bitter faculty clashes in the Institute's history was a fight over whether to retain the engineers brought in by Hungarian Mathematician John von Neumann to build a huge digital computer he had designed. The professors not only voted out the "hardware" men-but the computer as well. Less painfully, Oppenheimer in 1950 quietly phased out a school of economists who turned out to be more interested in advising Government...
...trade agreements. Meanwhile, Danish agricultural experts toured the backwoods of Czechoslovakia; Norwegian Mayor Brynjulf Bull concluded a scientific agreement in Budapest; and a delegation of Polish parliamentarians arrived in Brussels to have a look at the Common Market. Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki turned up in Stockholm; Hungarian Boss János Kádár talked to Tito in Bled; the Shah of Iran left Rumania for an eight-day state visit to Yugoslavia. No sooner had Rumanian Postal Minister Mihai Balanescu arrived in Paris to inspect French telecommunications than Kentucky Governor Ed Breathitt popped...
Proudest Possession. Not too long ago, Jack Javits might have deemed himself fortunate indeed to have gotten even crumbs. Reared on the abrading edge of self-sufficiency, he was the second son of Morris Jawetz, a former Talmudic scholar in what had been the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Ida Littman, daughter of a ne'er-do-well traveling salesman from Vienna who abandoned his family. Morris' proudest possession?about his only one?was his name; he traced its origin to a Biblical family of scribes that lived at Jabez (/ Chronicles 2: 55) near Jerusalem. He changed its spelling after arriving...