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...Calgary Herald, Mike Kadar, 47, an immigrant from Hungary 28 years ago, sought to talk, brother to brother, to none other than Janos Kadar, No. 1 stooge of the Soviet puppet regime in Hungary. He had small hopes of shoring up younger brother Janos' spine, but other Hungarian-Canadians had besought Mike Kadar to try to intercede in behalf of their valiant relatives still writhing under Russian guns in Hungary (see FOREIGN NEWS). After a futile 24-hour vigil near the telephone, Mike Kadar gave up and journeyed home to write a pleading letter to Janos. The harsh odds...
...week the New York Herald Tribune is publishing a six-part record of the cardinal's experiences, as told to one of his closest confidants, Father Josef Vecsey, 43, who grew up as a neighbor of Mindszenty's. As soon as the cardinal was liberated by the Hungarian revolution. Vecsey rushed to his side, had long talks with him before being forced to flee the country...
...platform diving, long the private preserve of U.S. athletes, some all-but-unbeatable competition came from an unexpected source. Time after time a Russian woman and a Hungarian man among the seven judges automatically gave lowest marks on every dive to Gary Tobian and Dick Connor of the U.S. and the highest marks to Russian divers. Even so, Tobian climbed to the platform for his last dive, nursing a slight lead over Mexico's classy Joaquin Capilla. Tobian flipped through a running double-twisting for ward one-and-a-half somersault with such consummate grace that his detractors could...
Almost inevitably, there was even some bloodshed. In the Olympic pool. Hungarians came face to face with Russians for the semifinals of water polo, indulged in an extra-rough version of one of the toughest of games. While Hungarian immigrants in the stands shouted insults at the Russians, both teams traded blows. One of the Russian players muttered a nasty word, "Fascist," and a Russian haymaker almost flattened Hungary's Antol Bolvari. In the closing minutes Russia's Vladimir Prokopov brutally butted Hungarian Center Ervin Zador under the eye and the Hungarian climbed out of the water, streaming...
Before the Hungarian water poloists went on to win the finals, they stood with some of their countrymen at Melbourne's airport and sadly said goodbye to others who climbed into an airplane and headed back to Europe. The band played the stirring music of Isten Aldd Meg a Magyart (Lord of Heaven Bless Our Land) as the plane roared away, and those on the ground wondered whether to return home or start new lives elsewhere...