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Since the coming of the commissars, Hungarian women, who used to be among Europe's most chic, have turned pale and proletarian. Reason: the commissars banned cosmetics. One result: a black market in smuggled lipsticks and rouge...
...rain-drenched field, the purple-shirted Hungarians got off to a fast two-goal start. Then the game warmed up. A flying block by Hungary's Mihaly Lantos turned the game into a brawling, freestyle wrestling match. Toward the end of the game, Hungary's Joseph Bozsik (an M.P. in his spare time) started trading punches with Brazil's Newton Santos. Stubbornly impartial, English Referee Arthur Ellis threw both men out of the game. After that the two teams spent as much energy booting each other about the field as they spent on the ball...
...David Michael Mountbatten, 35, who is closely related to both Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. It was not, however, the marquess' royal family ties which troubled Romaine; she had charged earlier that he was even more closely related (through connecting hotel suites) to eye-filling Hungarian Cinemactress Eva (A Tale of Five Women) Bartok...
...World War I, four old empires died: the Russian, Prussian, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian. The rot spread to Asia, and from the Middle East to Indo-China, the surge towards independence stirred among a billion people. World War II rocked the remaining empires: Japan's was liquidated; so was Mussolini's. In the past ten years, 600 million Arabs and Asians have won political independence, established ten new sovereign states.* France, expelled from Syria and Lebanon after World War II, is on the way out of Indo-China. The once prosperous Dutch East Indies has become the unprosperous...
Unlike other disputed land, such as the Saar, the Adriatic port city is of little economic value. Once, before the first World War, it serviced the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and it prospered. Since the breakup of the Empire, the trade going through the port has dwindled; nevertheless, Trieste retains vast political and military significance...