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...himself had first asked the U.S. for troops to restore order, and the U.S. told him to appeal to the U.N. Stevenson noted tartly: "We rejoice to hear the Soviet denounce political assassination with such vehemence . . . We condemn any death without due process of law, whether of African politicians, Hungarian patriots, or Tibetan nationalists ... As to colonialism, my country fought colonialism in 1776 . . . and my countrymen have died to end colonialism in Cuba, though some Cubans seem to have forgotten...
...conscience or his honor? German generals were found guilty at Nurnberg and executed by the Allies because they did not place conscience above orders from Hitler. Soviet officers at Budapest were reportedly executed by the Red army when they did put conscience above orders and refused to shoot down Hungarian freedom fighters. In World War II, Charles de Gaulle's conscience drove him to disobey the orders of Marshal Pétain when he escaped to Britain and set up the Free French forces...
...Year-the man whose imprint was most prominent in the year's events-ever since 1927, when the first choice was Charles A. Lindbergh. At times, the Man of the Year has been a symbolic figure (the American fighting man in Korea, 1950; the Hungarian Freedom Fighter, 1956), a woman (Queen Elizabeth, 1952), or even a couple (Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kaishek, 1937). This year tradition takes a new twist: for the first time, the cover belongs to the Men of the Year-15 brilliant Americans, exemplars of the scientists who are remaking man's world...
...bomb." In the first place, he argues, the big bomb was the creation of many minds. Even more important, the phrase is unpopular with Teller's teen-age son Paul. Explains Teller: "No one would want the hydrogen bomb for a kid brother." But the rumpled, Hungarian-born physicist has small chance of escape. Many minds did indeed contribute to the U.S. H-bomb, but it was Teller's basic insight that made the finished product possible. Today, he teaches a freshman course in physics appreciation at U.C.L.A., has a couple of books under way, is investigating the peaceful application...
Latin scholars, whenever they peek out from behind their soup-stained neckties and that untidy mess of irregular verbs, seem to be nice old dears. Take Alexander Lenard, M.D., a 50-year-old Hungarian linguist who for the last eight years has been teaching and farming in a small town near Sāo Paulo, Brazil. When he first read A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, he apparently thought of all those poor little children in ancient Rome who would never be able to read it, and he felt just awful. There was only one thing...