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...much as the embodiment of a group. TIME found this to be the case in 1950, during the Korean War, when the Man of the Year was neither a general nor a statesman but the American Fighting Man. It was so in 1956, when our choice was the Hungarian Freedom Fighter, who briefly and tragically rose against Soviet power, inaugurating (as we now know) a new era in Europe...
...instant Stonehenge," after Britain's famous Druid ruins, received a panning from the public and the press and pained reactions from the Roosevelt family. Earlier this year, the committee decided to try again, this time without a competition. After considering the work of 15 architects, it unanimously chose Hungarian-born, Bauhaus-trained Marcel Breuer, 64, whose recently opened inverted-ziggurat Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan drew hostile criticism until it proved to be a perfect host...
...agreements with Hungary and Bulgaria may help salve several irritants. Hungarians privately insist that the fate of József Cardinal Mindszenty, who became the chief cause of contention between the two countries when he was granted asylum in the U.S. legation during the 1956 Hungarian revolution, no longer interests them-though a 24-hour watch is maintained just in case he should decide to step outside. With Bulgaria, the major issue is Sofia's stubborn insistence on remaining the only European country that still jams Voice of America broadcasts...
...intrudes upon his past and, to her sorrow, resurrects his other wives, still very much alive in his memory. Christa Ludwig is forceful as Judith, whose curiosity leads her to her doom, and Walter Berry (Christa's real-life husband) is mellowly desolate as Bluebeard. Sung in Hungarian, with Istvan Kertesz conducting the London Symphony Orchestra...
...erosion of monolithic rule in Communist Europe continues apace. Last week Hungary revealed that it was joining Yugoslavia and Poland in abolishing the rigid list of unopposed candidates in national elections. From now on, Hungarian voters will be allowed a multiple choice of candidates-all of them, of course, Communist Party members...