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Robert Goldman and Glenn Paxton, who four seasons ago adapted Pride and Prejudice into First Impressions, have completed an original musical, Hurrah, Boys, Hurrah! Austro-Hungarian soldiers, oddly enough, took part in the American Civil War, and the show centers around a Union soldier and the daughter of a Hungarian officer, garrisoned in St. Louis in 1861 (spring). Another original musical is A Girl to Remember, starring Carol Burnett as a Hollywood script girl in the '30s, book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green...
...Kadar made a little-noticed speech over Radio Budapest. Said he: "I met the American delegation, which was just negotiating the nuclear test ban treaty, several times. In the course of these meetings, the members of the American delegation declared that they want to normalize their relations with the Hungarian People's Republic. We are ready to normalize relations...
...since Soviet tanks crushed the Hungarian Freedom Fighters' revolt in 1956 has the U.S. had an ambassador in Budapest. But for several months the U.S. has been negotiating toward more extensive diplomatic relations with Hungary. Similar conferences for friendlier relations-both political and economic -with Rumania, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia are being considered too. The U.S. State Department notes that much of the incentive has come from the satellites themselves; they have displayed an increasing interest in trading with the U.S., and even now 40% of all satellite trade is with countries in the West...
Kadar's "respectability" finally won the regime an unchallenged seat at the United Nations. Last week from Rome, Pope Paul VI sent a message to Hungarian bishops announcing the expectation of "good news," a hint that Josef Cardinal Mindszenty may soon be allowed by the Reds to leave the U.S. legation, where he has been holed up for almost seven years under 24-hour watch by Budapest police. After the revolution of 1848 swept the Continent, Hungarian Patriot Lajos Kossuth said that many people thought his countrymen were the "reddest republicans in Europe." Today, Hungary's people...
...Seymour was well-acquainted with the politics of the Wilson era. As a young professor at Yale, he was named to the American peace commission in Paris in 1919. He served as chief of the Austro-Hungarian division, and was also a member of the delegation on Rumanian-Yugoslav territorial disputes...