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...police headquarters the stranger told his story: He was a 28-year-old Hungarian named Imre Komoroczky, for six years a machinist at the Communists' prized Matyas Rakosi Engineering Works near Budapest. Though even his parents were ardent Communists, Imre took a dim view of the New Order. Once before, in 1950, he had tried to escape to the West in a packing crate, but the crate had broken open during transshipment in Prague. Imre was seized and returned to Hungary to spend 14 months in prison...
...Front. Last week, aware of their own party's unpopularity in the country, the worried Reds set up a super-Popular Front, the "People's Patriotic Front," and summoned 2,000 leading Hungarians, regardless of party, to Budapest for a two-day meeting. The meeting convened in a hall filled not with Red flags but with the red, white and green Hungarian national flag, and led off not with the singing of the Internationale but with the igth century anthem which begins, "God bless the Hungarian people...
...addition to Hungarian and English, Von Neumann speaks French and German, and has a large brown dog named Inverse. People who should know say that Von Neumann is eminently qualified to sit across the atomic table from the Russians in the greatest game in the world...
...staggering mathematical problems far beyond the scope of human brain power (Univac, Eniac, etc.). In 1951 he designed an electronic calculator, Maniac (mathematical analyzer, numerical integrator and computer), that in six months (instead of several lifetimes) made the H-bomb calculations derived from the equations of his fellow Hungarian, Dr. Edward Teller...
...will ever play the villain's role as sensationally as the late Lavrenty Beria of Moscow. But in Bucharest last week, Moscow's Rumanian satellites staged a highly professional road-show version of the melodrama, and the lead was played in fine style by Vasile Luca, a Hungarian from Transylvania who climbed from a locksmith's shop to a Communist education in Moscow and up to the posts of Deputy Premier, Finance Minister and No. 3 Red in postwar Rumania. Purged in 1952, Luca has since been in prison. Last week Bucharest announced that he had been...