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Clive Gray, former NSA vice-president in charge of international affairs, will attempt to gather a group of European students to observe Hungarian student conditions. If he is unable to obtain a visa he plans to stay in Vienna to find out about student conditions from Hungarian refugees in Austria...
...Council voted unanimously, however, to lend "symbolic support to Hungarian students' fight for academic freedom." The support will take the form of a letter to be sent today to the United States delegation at the United Nations, the New York Times, and the Hungarian Student Union. The latter is the powerful Hungarian counterpart of the National Student Association...
...muscular man with rough proletarian manners, rated no speechmaker, brusque, brown-eyed Kadar vowed he would get Rakosi, who worried about Kadar's growing popularity in the Communist youth organizations. By picking Kadar to succeed Gero as party boss last week, the Russians reckoned to appease Hungarian national feeling, but still keep a hard-core Communist in the key party position...
...Radio Budapest announced that, because "their training has been interrupted," the Hungarian Olympic Team (which includes Sandor Iharos, holder of five world records at distances from 1,500 meters to 5,000) would not travel to the games. Reported killed in fighting against Soviet troops in Hungary: Josef Csermak, 1952 Olympic hammer-throwing champion; Major Ferenc Puskas, captain of Hungary's great postwar soccer team; Gabor Benedek, runner-up in the 1952 Olympic pentathlon championship...
...Middle East, and for withdrawing the Aswan Dam offer in an insulting manner which provoked drastic Egyptian action. And most tragic, this whole chain of events--beginning with Dulles and ending with Eden--has divided the West and preoccupied world opinion while the Soviets wiped out the new Hungarian government...