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...first agreement is commercial: Austria and Communist Hungary will exchange passengers, and freight on the Danube. Austrian ships will be permitted to sail through Hungary and to the Black Sea; Hungarian ships may pass upriver through Austria to trade with Germany...
...small Alpine town near Trent where he was born, the son of a minor tax official, was part of Franz Josef's Austro-Hungarian empire. A passionate Italian Irridentist at 17 and a political prisoner before he got out of school, De Gasperi got his first legislative experience in the Austrian Parliament (he still speaks excellent German, as well as good French, hesitant but serviceable English...
...tired old man, plagued by debt and long riddled with cancer, moved one day in June 1885 into a small woodland cottage at Mt. McGregor, N.Y. Many a biographer has recorded the last days of Ulysses S. Grant at that cottage, but few have known them as well as Hungarian-born Historian Stefan Lorant (Lincoln-A Picture Story of His Life-Harper; $6). Last week Lorant presented the source of his knowledge to West Point-a packet of manuscripts that he had bought from Grant's descendants. Among the manuscripts were nine tragic little notes, penciled by West Pointer...
Beethoven: Sonatas for Cello & Piano (Janos Starker & Abba Bogin; Period, 2 LPs). All five of the master's efforts for cello and piano. The cello is played with fire, tenderness and unerring accuracy by Hungarian-born Janos Starker of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. His partner is a talented young (27) American pianist...
...acquisitions, including a couple of Japanese eels, an adjustable, double-ended wrench (circa 1856), 18 boxes of bricks from the White House renovation, one astral lamp (complete with glass shade fitted for electric light), a phanerogam, the original model of Emmons' "Pelvi-phore," a keyed Hungarian táragotó, the uniform worn by a student nurse at Passaic, N.J. General Hospital circa 1897, a star-nosed mole, a palatometer, a telegraph crossarm complete with two insulators, an untitled color print of a steak platter and half the braincase of a fossil herring...