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Wherever the Americans went they were greeted as conquering heroes. In Athens they were cheered on to three encores. In Teheran the Shah and his sister put in their own requests (his: Berlioz' Hungarian March; hers: Dvorak's Slavonic...
Makarios defended the Cypriot EOKA movement, asking "How can you call the Hungarian patriots 'freedom fighters' and the Cypriot patriots 'terrorists...
...doors of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty's Episcopal Palace are locked now, and shutters are drawn over the windows where candles flickered briefly last year, for the first time in years, on Allhallows' Eve. But from his refuge in the American legation, Mindszenty remains a symbol to the Hungarian people. The regime would be happy to have him leave the country...
...survivors of the revolution maintain a grim sense of humor. "Have you heard that the new Hungarian calendar has only eleven months?" asks the first Hungarian. "Yes," replies the second. "Premier Kadar has eliminated October...
...clothespin to get the cigar in. Even so, he enjoyed up to four a day. At one time, when he had heart trouble marked by anginal pain, he quit smoking and boasted of this "act of autotomy," but he stuck it out only 23 days. Disciple Sandor Ferenczi, a Hungarian analyst who was in the process of losing his own mind, offered to go to Vienna to psychoanalyze Freud out of his angina-which, Ferenczi was sure, was merely psychosomatic. Freud was touched by the offer but declined...