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...Europe, Air Polonia is flying within Poland and to London's Stansted Airport. To the south, Wizz Air, a Hungarian carrier, starts service in Eastern Europe in May, with an average one-way fare of $60. Even farther south, Qantas, Australia's biggest airline, begins service linking more than a dozen cities on Jetstar, going head to head with Virgin Blue. In the U.S., veteran no-frills flyer Southwest Airlines will take on U.S. Airways in Philadelphia. Southwest will offer $198 round-trip fares to cities like Phoenix, Ariz., and Las Vegas; USAir vows to make it a nasty fight...
Another contributor is Marcel Breuer, a Jewish-Hungarian whose art helped him escape from Nazi Germany in 1935. Walter Gropius, head of design for functional design firm Isokon, offered him a position in England working on new plywood furniture designs. The chairs that resulted, two of which are present in the exhibition, are the ones that most lend themselves to being mass produced...
...only family member who figures prominently), and is full of excited career talk as he achieves success. Then comes the romance with Anstee - tarnished by Anstee's jealousy and Gielgud's insistence that "I can't really share my life completely with anybody." Finally, true love arrives with a Hungarian, Martin Hensler, and Gielgud's letters become saturated with a new, blissful sense of mutual dependence. It makes for a bitter end when, after Gielgud has seen most of his friends die, Hensler succumbs to a "really horrendous" battle with cancer. After the richest of lives, the nonagenarian's final...
...Hungarian-born billionaire has spent $4 billion on causes from fighting disease to fostering democracy, but his latest passion is politics--and he has pledged at least $15 million to defeat President Bush. He also blasts Bush foreign policy in a new book, The Bubble of American Supremacy, and is taking his message to college campuses. TIME's Karen Tumulty talked with...
...childhood. Eszterhas, 59, was born in Hungary during World War II. His first memory is of a little boy who drowned in a cesspool in a refugee camp. When Eszterhas was 5, his parents brought him to the U.S., where he grew up dirt poor and delinquent in the Hungarian section of Cleveland. His father edited a Hungarian-language newspaper, while at home his mother went slowly mad--she believed the electrical outlets were shooting rays at her. All this is affectingly told in rich, dry-eyed detail, leavened with the occasional Vonnegutesque sardonicism...