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Soaring Syphilis. Trud's article, one of the rare admissions that prostitution does indeed exist under Soviet socialism, has been echoed in the satellite states. A Hungarian magazine recently asserted that there are 10,000 prostitutes in Budapest. In Poland, according to Radio Gdansk, there are 230,000 professionals. In a survey of Communism's old "ostrichlike policy," Salomon Lastik in Nowa Kultura reports that half of the prostitutes in Warsaw are below 25 years of age and of these one in three is not yet 18, proving them "a generation which has matured in the conditions...
...sleepy Austrian border hamlet of Helenenschacht, where six months ago Hungarian refugees by the dozens streamed across to freedom, an explosion last week brought the regulars in Schappl's Inn out into the raw, squally afternoon. Before them, on the Hungarian side of the double fence of barbed wire that now seals off the border, lay a young girl in agony. Her right leg was smashed and streaming blood, her face smeared with blood and mud. She rolled and writhed, all the time screaming. When she saw the Helenenschacht people she cried, "Please, please, help me, help...
...earth where the girl lay was torn up. The Austrians saw immediately that the girl had been injured by a mine, and concluded that there were probably other mines in the strip. At the edge of the woods beyond the frontier six Hungarian soldiers stood watching the girl. Neither the Austrians nor the Hungarian soldiers made a move to help her. Some of the Austrians drifted off, ashamed of their helplessness in the face not only of the mines but of the fact that the girl was beyond the fence in Hungarian territory...
...1/2-year-old participant in last November's Hungarian Revolution has been chosen by a faculty committee to live in Kirkland House next year as the recipient of a full scholarship endorsed recently by an anonymous donor. It is assumed that he will also be approved by the Admissions Committee...
...refugee is Charles Fenyvesi, who was approved yesterday as the second Hungarian to enter Kirkland by a committee of faculty members connected with the House. He traveled to Cambridge early this week for an interview with the group. He was chosen over several other applicants for his "intelligence, quickness, command of the language, and command of himself," Carl Kaysen, associate profesor of Economics, and chairman of the interviewing committee, said last night...