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...favorite breed, the Hungarian Komondor, is a big, lovable-looking beast as shaggy as a sheep. Komondors have been protecting flocks from wolves for centuries in Hungary. Now they are standing guard over American sheep in more than two dozen states from the Rockies to New England. Other Old World breeds are beginning to appear on U.S. ranches as well: the Anatolian shepherd; the Great Pyrenees from the mountains between France and Spain; the Italian Maremma; the Yugoslavian shepherd of Shar Planinetz; and the Kuvasz, a short-haired Hungarian cousin of the Komondor...
...find. Despite a sometimes highly dissonant and rhythmically spiky style, his music has a strong, direct appeal. As Musicologist Mosco Garner has observed: "Of the three musicians who dominated the musical scene during the first half of the 20th century-Stravinsky, Schoenberg and BartÓk-it is the Hungarian master who, despite his intellectual control, remained the nearest to the instinctual, the irrational in music, and thus to the Dionysian spirit...
...discovered the authentic tunes of the Magyars, largely based on modal orpentatonic (five-note) scales and sung to jagged, irregular rhythms, rather than the gypsy melodies used by Liszt, Brahms and even BartÓk in such early works as the Op. 1 Rhapsody that had previously passed for Hungarian folk music. On later journeys, BartÓk studied the music of the Rumanians, Bulgars, Slovaks and a group of Arabs in North Africa...
...forint, Hungary's monetary unit. Hungary, like all Eastern European countries, has traditionally had two rates of exchange, one for tourists and one for foreign trade. Fekete says that establishing a single value of the currency, which will be set primarily by world money markets, will make Hungarian businesses more efficient and profitable. Says he: "This will force our companies to work better. Marx never talked against profit but only who got the profit." The ultimate objective is to make the forint convertible with the U.S. dollar and other Western money...
...Hungarian officials believe that a partially convertible currency will encourage more trade with the West and reduce Hungary's dependence on the Soviet Union and other Comecon countries, which still buy roughly 40% of the nation's exports. Some impressive examples of Hungarian products are already being exported to the West. Portland, Ore., San Mateo, Calif., and Louisville, Ky., will soon have Hungarian-American-built Crown-Ikarus buses rolling down their streets. Hungarian officials hope the Soviet Union will recognize that it has the choice of letting its satellites improve their economies-or risking a Polish-style blowup...