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...none of the reports have ever been confirmed. Last week newspaper readers on both sides of the Atlantic were presented with the most elaborately packaged claim of all. In a six-part series that included photographs purportedly taken of Bormann last October and excerpts from supposedly secret documents, Hungarian-born U.S. Author Ladislas Farago contended that the missing murderer was alive and living as a prosperous businessman in Latin America...
...establishment figure, stern and rational," recalls Franzen. "Breuer was the artist. He opened our minds to everything." Adds Johansen: "He was always accessible. We had lots of parties at his place. But in class, he goaded us. 'Why not do it?' he asked in his Hungarian accent. He made us find our own solutions...
...phenomenon in the U.S. The Spanish missionaries who brought European civilization to the New World also brought European grapes. Before the U.S. was a nation, Franciscan Padre Junipero Serra, founder of nine Spanish missions in California, was making wine in San Diego. After the Gold Rush in 1849, a Hungarian adventurer named Agoston Haraszthy brought 200,000 premium European grapevines to California. In the 1880s an epidemic of the root disease, phylloxera, wiped out nearly all of Europe's vineyards. Thousands of American rootstocks, with their phylloxera-resistant native roots, were shipped over to Europe. Thus most European wine...
...even after Harvard had taken a 28-2 lead at the half, and had gone on to win 35-16. Champagne wasn't worried. He wasn't aware that the Harvard guy was sitting comfortably across the field, dispensing Hungarian wine to anyone in the immediate vicinity, and rubbing his hands together in anticipation. "We'll go to Gotham City tonight," he was saying to his brown-haired girlfriend. "We'll spend a big chunk of Champagne's hard-earned money." The Harvard guy had remembered that bet, and had taken appropriate steps. He had signed up for a three...
...plenteously swaddled in curtain material but sadly lacking in fresh fruit. The Czechs boast a superfluity of fruit but their coffee and vodka are prohibitively expensive. The Soviets are awash in coffee and vodka but desperately desire well-fashioned clothes and shoes. Nearly everyone in Eastern Europe hungers for Hungarian salamis, and Hungary is piled high with them; yet many a Magyar bosom droops despairingly for want of an uplifting...