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Still the focus for the Kremlin's drive was Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. While he awaited a final ruling on his life-term prison sentence, the Hungarian Communists roared against the "Western warmongers," whose "slander-and-lie campaign" was "attempting to capitalize on the Mindszenty trial." It was clear that the Reds were still trying to establish a working relationship with the Catholic Church-on their own terms. Last week Hungary's Bench of Bishops received a letter-supposedly written by Mindszenty and similar to the one read during the trial-urging an agreement. At week...
Certainly Gyoergy was unbowed. "I don't retract one single word," he stormed. "I'd do it again any time . . . The American players ... are a bunch of dollar-imperialist puppets, reactionaries and betting braggarts." Shamefaced Hungarian players, who did not share the fire-eating Communist's opinions, privately apologized to the U.S. team. After the Hungarian team won the Swaythling Cup, even Gyoergy grudgingly relented: "It's a pity I said all this. It chips off some of the glory of the Magyar victory...
Stockholm police cut short the Hungarian victory celebration to chip off a little more glory. They nabbed husky, blonde Gizi Farkas, three times world champion Ping-Pongstress. As with her other compatriots, Gizi's excursion this side of the Iron Curtain was an occasion for stocking up on nylons, watches, lighters-all the paraphernalia of the bourgeois West. She was so awe-struck at the sight of Swedish abundance that she had bagged a handsome wool jacket without paying for it. "I've never seen such a beautiful thing before," she admitted. "I just couldn't resist...
Gizi, previously hailed by Szepesi for her "moral superiority over her fellow contestants," was ignominiously packed off by plane. Instead of playing in Goteborg and London this week, Gizi will be out of temptation's way, back in the glorious Hungarian People's Republic...
...official knowledge og Scott-King's presence in the country, his is compelled to leave by the underground disguised as a nun, and is at length deposited at a small Mediterranean port among various royalists, anarchists, Pétainists, terrorists, ex-Gestapo men, Italian airmen, Turkish prostitutes, Hungarian ballet dancers and Portuguese Trotskyites. He winds up eventually at a Jewish Illicit Immigrants' camp in Palestine where one of his former students recognizes him and establishes his identity...