Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Believing themselves entitled to a voice in Communism's world policy, the Chinese defended Poland's right to follow its own "road to socialism," urged quick suppression of the Hungarian revolt, refused to make peace with Tito. Peking fumed when Khrushchev, in 1958, suggested a summit meeting without inviting the Red Chinese. Peking's much-publicized opposition to Khrushchev's "peaceful coexistence" line has several facets. At home, this almost middle-class slogan threatens to dampen the revolutionary ardor Peking needs to justify the sacrifices of its own people. On the world scene, Red China would...
...Count. The founding father of the California wine industry was a wandering Hungarian named Agostin Haraszthy, who appeared in San Diego one day in 1849. California wine was then largely made from the sweet, heavy purple grape brought from Spain by the Franciscan monks. "The Count,'' as Haraszthy was called, did not like it. He persuaded the legislature that the state's wine needed improvement, and in 1861, he took off for Europe, returned with 200,000 cuttings of Europe's finest vines-a favor that California later returned...
...Ghana's rule that South Africa is not fit to be a member because it defies U.N. principles, could Red China, which actually waged war against the U.N. in Korea, ever attain U.N. membership? Could Russia and the regime of Janos Kadar, which defied the U.N. on the Hungarian question, retain their U.N. seats? On such matters, the African states seemed resolutely dedicated to a double standard...
...year-old Hungarian-born scientist, who was in New York yesterday to receive an award from the Deafness Research Foundation, was surprised by the news. "I?" he exclaimed, after seeing the Associated Press dispatch from Sweden...
...work for which von Bekesy received the Nobel award was actually done at the Royal Hungarian Institute in Budapest. After leaving Hungary in 1946, von Bekesy went to Sweden as Research Professor at the Caroline Institute. In 1947 he came to Harvard...