Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dictated his autobiography-from his Houston childhood through his careening career as moviemaker, airline owner, speed-record breaker, electronic tycoon, husband, and archrecluse. To help him tell his story, Hughes has appropriately chosen a fiction writer, Clifford Irving, author of several novels and Fake, the biography of the Hungarian forger of modern art, Elmyr de Hory. LIFE will print three 10,000 word installments of the book beginning in early March, and McGraw-Hill will publish the 230,000 word volume a few weeks later. Characteristically, the taping sessions for the book were shrouded in such Hughesian secrecy that...
...including two Nobel laureates?gathered at the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory in Soviet Armenia under the auspices of the Soviet and U.S. Academies of Science to ponder a mind-boggling proposition: Should man try to monitor the messages of other worlds? The answer was a resounding yes. Russian, U.S., Czech. Hungarian and British delegates united to support an unusually cooperative proposal: "It seems to us appropriate that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence should be made by representatives of the whole of mankind...
Fastest Wit. The author is Hungarian-born Shabtai Teveth, 45, a leading Israeli journalist and writer (The Tanks of Tammuz), who had nine lengthy interviews with Dayan. Teveth portrays an earthy, sometimes unpredictable man -and the fastest wit in the Middle East. Stopped on one occasion by a military policeman for driving 75 m.p.h. when the military speed limit was 44 m.p.h., Dayan said with a wry smile: "I have only one eye. What do you want me to watch-the speedometer or the road...
Power Struggle. A Hungarian newspaper recently noted that for the first time since the end of World War II everybody in the Balkans is finally on speaking terms. Still, the terms are by no means always polite. Albania, Peking's principal friend in Europe, is still swapping denunciations with Bulgaria. Sofia and Belgrade are still quarreling over Bulgarian claims to the entire region of Macedonia...