Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quarrel with Khrushchev. Albtourist has even hopefully sent its tourist folders to a small West German travel agency in Cologne. TIME Correspondent Edward Behr decided to apply as a tourist. He had to wait six weeks for a visa, at last entered Albania on a once-a-week Hungarian flight from Budapest to have a look at the country whose regime was described as "more bloodthirsty and retrograde than that of the czars" by no less a connoisseur than Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev...
...Seventeen years ago, dolling! I didn't know vat I vas doing! I vas still just a little Hungarian teen-ager," said a contrite Zsa Zsa Gabor in her heaviest sour-cream accent. Back in 1945, the most visible of Mamma Gabor's three girls had tossed a tantrum in Manhattan's El Morocco nightclub, wound up spitting in Owner John Perona's face, and was banned forevermore from the zebra-striped benches. Now, a year after the proprietor's death, Son Edwin Perona listened to the importuning...
...cool. In the summer of A.D. 221, Roman Emperor Heliogabalus sent i.ooo slaves into the mountains for snow to cool his gardens. Sweltering men have produced bizarre notions too: one 19th century inventor drew a fanciful suit of Venetian blinds, including a Venetian-blind hat. Various theaters and the Hungarian Parliament tried blowing air over massive amounts...
...China and the U.S.-have cast a total of only seven vetoes, Russia has resorted to the veto 99 times. Among other things, the Reds blocked moves to investigate the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948, to end the Berlin blockade, to censure bloody Soviet suppression of the 1956 Hungarian revolt. Four times Russia killed resolutions concerning disarmament, and 51 times it vetoed U.N. membership for clearly qualified nations. Last week Russia cast veto No. 100, merely to curry favor with India...
...exodus to the New Jersey suburbs will be something new in the history of the Satmar congregation. The families are mostly Hungarian or Rumanian by birth; the congregation gets its name from the Rumanian village of Satmar, where Rabbi Teitelbaum, a descendant of a long line of Hasidic teachers, taught until World War II. The Satmar Jews are probably the strictest group in Orthodox Judaism. They will eat only kosher food that comes from their own stores. They refuse to watch television, will not ride in cars or use any mechanical device on the Sabbath, wear clothes that conform strictly...