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HINDEMITH: KAMMERMUSIK NO. 4 and KURT WEILL: VIOLIN CONCERTO (Westminster). The young Hungarian-born violinist Robert Gerle has chosen some nearly trackless territory to explore, but he is led by that experienced pioneer, Hermann Scherchen. conducting the Vienna Wind Group and other instrumentalists...
Through an assiduous campaign of relative liberalization, Hungarian Communist Boss Janos Kadar hoped to erase the image of a Moscow toady that attached to him after Russia's brutal repression of the 1956 Hungarian revolt. He largely succeeded. In addition to other forms of relaxation, including somewhat freer speech and more permissive economic planning, Kadar seemed inclined to ease up on the church. After 18 months of complex and arduous negotiations with the Vatican, he recently agreed to replenish Hungary's dwindling supply of Roman Catholic priests and permit freer practice of religion. But liberalization can go only...
...justified suspicion of having prepared a plot." Chief among them was Father Laszlo Emodi, who in 1961 had been sentenced to seven years in prison for organizing religious instruction for children, but was set free last year in a general amnesty. Two days after the Radio Budapest announcement, the Hungarian Supreme Court sentenced five more persons to jail for "conspiracy against the state and organizing an illegal party...
Died. Arkady Aleksandrovich Sobolev, 61, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister and longtime (1955-60) delegate to the U.N. who never banged a shoe or threw phony fits but achieved dubious fame in 1956 when he pooh-poohed the Hungarian uprising as a conspiracy among "fascist counterrevolutionaries"; after a long illness; in Moscow...
...relaxing than going out." Countess John Palffy likes to have twelve friends to a black-tie dinner party, then asks from 30 to 60 more "for a nightcap" afterwards. The late comers provide "the new blood" that "keeps the dinner guests from drooping." An added aid is a small Hungarian band imported for the dance-minded. Elizabeth Oxenberg, 26, is a genuine-though deposed-Princess of Yugoslavia who eloped four years ago with Seventh Avenue Manufacturer Howard Oxenberg, still lends an air of royalty to the social circuit. But most titled ladies are simple American girls who married romantic foreigners...