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...early rose potatoes"; Franklin D. Roosevelt was "a fox grafted onto a lion" who "used his jaw as men use hands and elephants use trunks." If the descriptions sound like notes for a cartoon to be drawn later, there is good reason. The words belong to Emery Kelen, a Hungarian-born caricaturist who has spent most of his life studying faces for some clue to the inner man. Along with Kelen's deft pen portraits, his incisive word pictures appear in his book, Peace in Their Time (Knopf...
After the revolutions of 1848 swept the Continent, Hungarian Patriot Lajos Kossuth said that his countrymen were the "reddest republicans in Europe." Today, seven years after Russian tanks crushed the Hungarian revolt, Hun gary's 14 million people are fast be coming Europe's most republican Reds...
...when President Kennedy's sisters, Pat Lawford and Jean Smith, visited Budapest, television and radio crews dogged their footsteps. Restrictions against travel to the West have been eased; long lines of visa applicants daily queue up outside Western embassies in Budapest, and it is now chic for vacationing Hungarian couples to agree to meet in Venice...
...Kadar's U.N. delegates (though they actually take part in debates and vote). The final trace of U.N. disapproval disappeared recently when Secretary-General U Thant spent three days in Hungary and seven hours with Kadar himself. Even the U.S., unable to round up continued support to block Hungarian accreditation, will not oppose the official seating of Hungary's delegation at the next General Assembly session...
...Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, who is still in asylum at the U.S. legation and whom the government wants to leave the country. First signs of a rapport with Rome appeared when the government announced that it would approve Pope Paul's assignment of six new Catholic bishops to vacant Hungarian sees. But the government still refuses to let other bishops and some 1,000 priests perform their duties...