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...Janeiro's Hotel Gloria. On the Rio end, three of the world's top soccer players took their turns for one minute of conversation. On the Budapest end were the players' wives, all with the same message: "Please come home! Everything will be all right." The Hungarian government was leaving no weapon untried in an effort to lure its topflight Honved soccer team back from a renegade jaunt...
Back home, the Hungarian Soccer Federation pulled out the rule book, and the International Soccer Federation backed it up. Honved's tour, warned the world group, was illegal, and any team playing them would be subject to fine or suspension. Flamengo went ahead anyway, but the reaction elsewhere was not so brave. Several other Brazilian teams refused to play, and from soccer federations in Argentina, Ecuador, Uruguay, Mexico, Peru and the U.S. came word that no matches with Honved would be authorized. Though still dickering last week for two Flamengo-Honved games in Venezuela, the Hungarians were rapidly running...
...Wanamaker Mile, Olympic 1,500-Meter Champion Ron Delany ran his usual heady race, let Hungarian Refugee Laszlo Tabori and North Carolina's Jim Beatty scrap for the lead, then kicked past to finish 7 yds. in front of Tabori in a comfortable...
Died. John von Neumann, 53, Hungarian-born mathematician, member since 1955 of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; of cancer; in Washington, B.C. (see SCIENCE...
Died. Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, 88, strongman of Hungary from 1920 to 1944; in his sleep; in Estoril, Portugal, where he had lived since 1948. A younger son of petite noblesse, Horthy became a naval cadet at 14, rose rapidly, was made admiral of the Austro-Hungarian fleet after he faced down a mutiny late in World War I. In 1920, as the apocalyptic Red Terror of Leninist Bela Kun burned itself out. Horthy seized Budapest, got himself declared Regent of Hungary, earned the enmity of his country's liberals by letting the bloody White Terror reaction...