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...Soviet system of education, as presented in a report released Sunday by the U. S. Office of Education, looks good on paper, but it has many defects in practice, a Hungarian student asserted here yesterday...
...After watching his beautiful bay colt Stephanotis stumble out of the money in last year's Epsom Derby, Hungarian-born International Banker Arpad Plesch decided that the animal had heart trouble. And he could think of no better heart specialist than President Eisenhower's own, Dr. Paul Dudley White. "His hobby is looking at cardiograms of horses," said Plesch, so he sent Dr. White an electronic tracing of Stephanotis' heartbeat. The good doctor, who also takes an interest in the tickers of whales, took one look and pronounced the colt fit. Reassured, Stephanotis won last week...
...When the showdown with Beria came, it was Zhukov who ordered the army's tanks into the heart of Moscow to paralyze Beria's police. Elevated to Defense Minister, Zhukov was the man who ordered Soviet tanks into Budapest ("liquidating fascism," he called it) to crush the Hungarian rebellion for Khrushchev. Last June, when the Malenkov-Molotov-Kaganovich forces mustered a majority in the Presidium, it was. Zhukov who saved Khrushchev by throwing the army's support to him. As a reward, he was named to the Presidium itself, the first professional soldier ever...
These words of Hungarian Poet Gyula Illyes, written in 1950, were first published a year ago in Budapest when, for a moment, there was freedom. Last week on the first anniversary of the day the nation rose in revolt, Hungarians could demonstrate only by sullen silence...
...performance of the young Hungarian violinist, Johanna Martzy, in the Brahms Violin Concerto was the major event of the afternoon. Substituting at the last moment, her reading stressed the dramatic qualities of the concerto without neglecting its lyricism. She has enough tone and technique to render the most difficult passages of this difficult work with seeming ease. The first movement cadenza was especially remarkable for its coherence, the sustained ending and orchestral entrance providing a particularly beautiful phrase...