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...them. Hungary has a glut of poor-quality textiles, including cheap shirts labeled in English "The Very Honorable, Foreign Made," also produces cheap shoes called Baby Doll to compete with those from Czechoslovakia's Communist-owned Bata shoe factory. Unable to sell either item to the West, Hungarian companies were forced to unload them on home consumers at cut-rate prices...
...Rules. She could also take punishment like a man. During the Hungarian Revolution, she slipped over the Hungarian border without a visa. She was soon caught and thrown into a cold, grimy jail for seven weeks. By starving and brainwashing her, the Communists tried to force her to admit that she was guilty of espionage. But she never broke. "The old rules," she wrote later, "still held good in this as in any other conflict between human beings. If you fought hard enough, whatever was left of you afterward would not be found stripped of honor...
...then there's Charley Gogolak, probably the most publicized football player in the country. The Hungarian-born soccer-style kicker has broken just about every national field goal kicking record. He has booted 15 this year (in 19 attempts) and has kicked 42 consecutive extra points from if the Princeton backfield were comprised of four basket cases, the Tigers would still have an effective offense with Gogolak...
...total recall as a child in his native Budapest. Father was a dentist who was determined that his son should be a great violinist. So while he drilled away on patients' teeth in the front room, he kept an ear cocked to be sure that young Jeno (Hungarian for Eugene) was grinding away on his violin in the rear. "I hit on the idea of memorizing the music," explains Ormandy, "so that I could read novels as I practiced. It came easy and has been ever since...
...which are characterized by the predominant role of the first violin, here brilliantly played by Eli Goren. In the C Major he tirelessly weaves a long garland of arpeggios and trills, then plunges into an adagio of exceptional beauty, tracing a hopeful obbligato above a deep-voiced Hungarian lament...