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...victory over Russia in basketball; at the World University games in Budapest. Sparked by Princeton All-America Bill Bradley, who scored 20 points, and cheered on by a wildly partisan Hungarian crowd, the Americans rolled up a 42-25 half-time lead, coasted to their second straight win (first score: 81-38) over an outclassed Russian team. In other events at the games, Texas' Randy Matson uncorked a toss of 66 ft. 7⅝ in. to win the shotput; and Florida's John Pennel won the pole vault, jumping...
...Madame Klara's creations, which begin at the distinctly basse couture price of only $52 per dress, look rather a lot like last year's Givenchys and Chanels. Her evening gowns at times are even languidly reminiscent of the 1930s, when, as the daughter of a successful Hungarian couturier ("I was born on the cutting-room table"), she founded her establishment in the Budapest of Ferenc Molnar and Béla Bartók. Still, the fact that after postwar years of obscurity, she thrives today and retails her wares to the likes of Jovanka Tito, the Marshal...
...exclusive right to independently elaborate its political line," he announced. He called for the abolition of all military blocs and, in a reference ostensibly to Viet Nam but which surely raised eyebrows among such members of his audience as East Germany's Walter Ulbricht and the Hungarian delegation, insisted that "foreign military bases and troops stationed on the territory of other states exert a negative influence on international relations...
...Hungarian, szigeti means "insular." All too often that precisely describes the life of the professional performing musician--no more extensive than the routine of performance. But Joseph Szigeti's life takes in the whole sea of adventure in and out of music. And his treasure ship is the violin...
...that communication gives: communication that transcends the barriers of language, of nationality, of race." And he feels that other performers are attracted to the arduous profession for the same reason. Szigeti was made conscious of the rigors of communication because he had to translate everything from the relatively useless Hungarian of his youth. For him, the translation from written notes to sounds is entirely analogous. And it allows him to communicate with whomever he encounters en chemin...