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LISZT: TWELVE TRANSCENDENTAL ETUDES; HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY NO. 3; SPANISH RHAPSODY (Melodiya/Columbia, 2 LPs). Lazar Berman, the latest superstar from Russia, in an electrifying display of pianistic fireworks...
Died. Elmyr de Hory, 65, master art forger; by his own hand (sleeping-pill overdose); on the Spanish island of Ibiza. Hungarian-born De Hory painted under his own name until 1946, when he sold a small "Picasso" that he had executed. With the aid of a skillful fence, he turned his mimicry of Matisse, Modigliani and others into millions of dollars until his cover was blown in 1967. The dapper De Hory was the subject of Fake!, a 1969 biography by his friend Clifford Irving−no mean hoaxer himself−and a movie by Orson Welles. In recent...
...these are presently deployed on the front line of defense. NATO officers need not worry as much as their Russian counterparts about the loyalty of their units. Speculates a senior U.S. officer in West Germany: "If you were a Soviet general, would you feel comfort able about Polish, Czech, Hungarian -let alone Rumanian-troops?" (However, pacifism and far-left loyalties in several Western European countries are also a concern...
Capitalist Partners. The effort to boost exports has pushed some Communist nations into a further affront to ideology: inviting capitalists in as partners to make their industries more efficient. In Hungary, for example, Corning Glass Works of the U.S. owns 49% of a Hungarian company that will produce blood gas analyzers and Sweden's Volvo has a minority share in a vehicle-production plant...
Above all, Eastern Europeans are beginning to understand they must improve the quality of their goods if they hope to sell enough abroad to pay for more of their imports. Says Karoly Ravasz, a Hungarian official: "Instead of ordinary lathes, we must produce precision machinery. Instead of textiles that sell in flea markets, we want to sell fashionable clothes." Only in that way can the Communists avoid going much deeper into hock to the West...