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...exodus to the New Jersey suburbs will be something new in the history of the Satmar congregation. The families are mostly Hungarian or Rumanian by birth; the congregation gets its name from the Rumanian village of Satmar, where Rabbi Teitelbaum, a descendant of a long line of Hasidic teachers, taught until World War II. The Satmar Jews are probably the strictest group in Orthodox Judaism. They will eat only kosher food that comes from their own stores. They refuse to watch television, will not ride in cars or use any mechanical device on the Sabbath, wear clothes that conform strictly...
...your article [May 17] concerning the poll the YAF is conducting, you mentioned the Association of Hungarian Students of North America as one of the co-sponsors of the poll. Whereas it is true that the members of the Association are actively engaged in conducting the same poll at various campuses, the Association must emphatically reject any implications of involvement in the intrigues that are conducted against the NSA, be it in connection with this poll or any other field...
...against the NSA, which we consider to be the only true representative organization of U.S. students at present. We have a good relationship with NSA and do not wish to undermine it by subscribing to such irresponsible action. Derick P. Pasternak, Chairman of the Board, Association of Hungarian Students in N. America...
...march with the goose-stepping Nazis in East Germany," he told the demonstrators. "Go and see what it's like to deal with Soviet police and Soviet tanks, like the Hungarian people. Perhaps you will learn something about the Soviet empire and the Communist dictatorship." Then Gaitskell said publicly what many have known: the unilateralist Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is infiltrated by Communists. "Having failed miserably by free democratic methods, all they can do is to try to deny free speech to others. I am proud to provoke the hatred of those who hate freedom...
Died. Michael Curtiz (pronounced Curtease), 73, Oscar-winning (for Casablanca) Hollywood director, a leathery Hungarian import who, in a 35-year career spent largely with Warner Bros., directed 80-odd films ranging from blood and thunder (The Charge of the Light Brigade) to canned Americana (White Christmas), was famed for his malapropisms ("Make a love nest") and his gall (he cut the sermon to the birds out of Francis of Assist as "too corny"), but stubbornly insisted "I put all the art into my pictures I think the audience can stand"; of cancer; in Hollywood...