Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Physicist Edward Teller has a reputation for thinking big: during World War II, as other Manhattan Project scientists were racing to build the first atom bomb, the Hungarian-born Teller was already working on the hydrogen bomb. While the H-bomb was both a technological tour de force and a hellishly effective weapon, however, one of Teller's more recent enthusiasms -- the X- ray laser -- could turn out to be an expensive dud. That possibility has ignited a fire storm of accusations that has set off a federal investigation into recent goings-on at the University of California's Lawrence...
...learn with devastating offhandedness, were manufactured by Topf of Wiesbaden, a company that went on to produce crematoria until 1975. There are also the moral zombies who planned and managed the Lagers (camps), and the scientists who acted in the name of higher learning. Of Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian physician and chief doctor of the Birkenau SS, Levi writes dryly, "Nyiszli was supposed to devote himself in particular to the study of twins: in fact, Birkenau was the only place in the world where it was possible to study the corpses of twins killed at the same moment...
Musical humor is no joke to perform, but it can be very funny, and Oil City Symphony, now playing at the downtown branch of Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater, is very funny indeed. Whether grimly trying to keep up with the quickening abandon of a mock Hungarian czardas, or haplessly segueing from Verdi's "Anvil Chorus" to Iron Butterfly's In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida, or just getting down and funky with a little tune of their own called Beaver Ball at the Bug Club, the Oil City Symphony lets the good times roll, and in the process...
Other alarming cases have since surfaced. Earlier this month two Japanese businessmen and two Hungarian diplomats were indicted in Asheville, N.C., and charged with diverting to Hungary an advanced U.S. laser trimming system used to manufacture semiconductors. The product had been shipped from Charlotte, N.C., to Tokyo as an ordinary "carpet trimmer." From there it was smuggled to Budapest as part of a diplomat's "household goods." The Hungarians, according to the indictment, paid the Japanese $380,000 for their trouble...
Unemployment, new taxes and rising prices may prove to be a combustible mixture. Privately, Hungarian officials say that the regime has begun bracing for strikes and protests. "Things just keep getting worse," says Tamas, 19, a blue jeans-clad vegetable seller in Budapest. "Everyone I know thinks there's going to be an explosion." The challenge for Hungary's rulers, as for Moscow's innovative Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, will be to contain such public discontent long enough for the economic reforms to bear fruit...