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...love. With excellent dialogue and good characterization, the piece moves along, jumping (not always smoothly) from one "great line" to the next. The reader is delighted to see the entertainment at a bar, consisting of a Mexican guitar troupe and then eight violinists from Budapest who begin with the "Hungarian Rhapsody" and end with "Flight of the Bumblebee." But excellent though the details and lines may be, they often seem to exist merely for their own excellence and there is not a great continuity to the piece. The beginning is slow and the narrative between the dialogue could also...
...present peace push stems from several indications of increased willingness to negotiate which came from Hanoi late this fall. At the opening of the U.N. General Assembly in October, the Hungarian Foreign Minister, Mr. Janos Peter, informed Secretary Rusk that North Vietnam would come to the bargaining table if American bombing raids were suspended. The Russians conveyed a similar message through the U.S. Ambassador in Moscow, Foy Kohler. Finally, editorials in Nhan Dan, the official Hanoi newspaper, indicated that North Vietnam would no longer insist on the withdrawal of American troops as a precondition to peace talks...
...Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler met in the Kremlin with Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny just before a high-level Soviet group headed by Aleksandr Shelepin, the party's No. 2 man, left for Hanoi. And in Washington, Secretary of State Dean Rusk met with Hungarian officials, who had made it clear that they, too, wanted to join the lengthening procession of countries hopeful of mediating...
...Bronze Star came later, for administrative work as commander of a prison camp. And then when he was mustered out of the service, Mulliken may have thought that his experience with war had ended. Not so. He went on to cover, as a LIFE reporter, the Hungarian revolution, the Lebanon and Suez crises, the Congo uprising and the Viet Nam War. He has been TIME's Pentagon correspondent since...
...Marseille, Conrad met and fell madly in love with the Pretender's beautiful young mistress, a luscious Hungarian named Paula de Somogyi. They ran off together and spent several idyllic weeks in a rose-covered cottage on an Alp. The idyl ended when a jealous admirer provoked a quarrel. Conrad challenged him to a duel, but then chivalrously fired at the fellow's pistol hand. His opponent, who was Francis Scott Key's grandson but obviously no gentleman, calmly transferred the pistol to his other hand and shot Conrad through the chest. For days Conrad lay near...