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Within the debate-divided ranks of U.S. scientists, the stoutest advocate of continued testing is the University of California's Hungarian-born Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller, famed as "father of the H-bomb" (TIME, Nov. 18). In a newly published book,* Teller sets forth, as he sees them, the facts about radioactive fallout and the reasons for going on with nuclear tests. "Fear of what we do not know or do not understand has been with us in all ages," he writes. "Against [it] there exist two weapons: understanding and courage. Of the two, courage is more important...
...citizens complain about the government with something approaching freedom. In Hungary only newspaper offices and high officials get printed news from the West, and the people keep their bitterness to themselves. In Poland fearless Cardinal Wyszynski goads the administration; in Hungary Cardinal Mindszenty hides in the American legation. The Hungarian writers who inspired and helped lead the revolution seldom dare to write even sly gibes (though they regularly and stubbornly send delegations to demand the release of Novelist Tibor Dery, intellectual leader of the revolt...
...happened so fast that Ron ran the last quarter in 56.4, was clocked for the mile in 4:03.7, just one-tenth second short of the indoor record. It was obvious that even if the Hungarian gets around to running up another record for himself, The Delany will probably be pounding home in front of that race...
...Alexander) Lichtman, 69, pioneer film distributor, onetime president of United Artists, vice president of M-G-M and 20th Century-Fox (executive producer of Boys Town, The Wizard of Oz); of a heart attack; in West Los Angeles. Two years ago, ailing from asthma and heart trouble, Hungarian-born Lichtman retired from Fox, holed up in Manhattan's Ritz Tower, quietly went to work on a story which no one wanted. A war novel, it had been kicking around producers' offices for about eight years, was considered too diffuse and sprawling for the screen. Lichtman liked it anyway...
...Anne Frank did, right up to the end. Said a survivor: "I can still see her standing by the door, watching a group of naked young gypsy girls being shoved along to the crematory. Anne watched them, weeping. And she also wept when we filed past Hungarian children waiting, twelve hours naked under the rain, for their turn to enter the gas chamber. Anne cried: 'Look at their eyes!' She wept when most of us had no tears left...