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Last week in Munich, another Hungarian engineer-one who got away-was supplying the Voice with more facts about Hungarian railroading under the Communists. He was a young man who had left a farm only four years ago to go to Budapest and try his luck on the railroads. "There were many new locomotives on the roads then," he said, "but they were all heading east to Russia. All we had were old 'Truman 525.' " So called in derision, these were obsolescent U.S. locomotives sent over as stopgap aid before the Iron Curtain fell. Most were falling apart...
Back & forth, back & forth, like the surge and sound of the sea itself went Michael Patrick O'Brien, the stateless soldier of fortune-possibly Hungarian, possibly American-who boarded the Hong Kong-Macao ferry last September, only to find that he could not land on either shore because he had no passport (TIME, Oct. 13). By last week O'Brien had completed his 44th round trip between the China Sea ports. He had reached a sort of understanding with the Lee Hong's captain and crew. O'Brien, who was once a ship's engineer...
Married. Archduke Felix of Habsburg, 36, third son of Emperor Charles I and Empress Zita, last rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire; and German Princess Anna Eugenie of Arenberg, 27; in 1) a civil ceremony, and 2) a Roman Catholic ceremony witnessed by the ex-Empress Zita, Archduke Otto, pretender to the throne, and 200 of Europe's rich and royal; in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France...
...group has an ambitious performance schedule. Later in the year, it hopes to co-sponsor a program of dance symposiums with other colleges. Tonight, the group is presenting its fall term attraction: a concert with the Radcliffe Cheral Society. English and Hungarian performance during the school months. folk songs will be performed, as well as interpretations of Negro spirituals...
...what purports to be the Paris office of the New York Herald Tribune's European edition) alternate between playing footie with one another and playing hide & seek with a scurvy group of Iron Curtain spies. Reporter Andrews, assigned to the Budapest beat, is jailed, drugged and tortured by Hungarian heavies. An elusive bit of microfilm evidence turns up just in time for a happy ending...