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...most recent overt demonstrations of student political views have taken place in Poland. Demonstrations were organized in Warsaw University in the spring of 1964 in support of the thirty-four Polish intellectuals who had written an open letter to the Polish Prime Minister, Josef Cyrankiewicz, demanding a more open cultural policy. In October 1966, fourteenS...
...usual, Hungarian plainclothesmen were waiting outside the U.S. legation in Budapest on the remote chance that the old man might emerge. There was no chance at all. Inside, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty thanked the legation staff for a bouquet of red and white carnations that celebrated his 75th birthday, stared briefly from his window at the Soviet war memorial in "Freedom Square" below, and continued the political exile that began during the uprising of 1956. The Hungarians have offered him amnesty, but Mindszenty refuses to leave his asylum, or his country, until the Communists clear him of the trumped-up charges...
Doing Nicely. Silberbauer was reprimanded, and is now back on the Vienna force. Explains Wiesenthal: "Compared to other names in my files, Silberbauer is a nobody, a zero." Other names in Wiesenthal's at-large list go far beyond zero. They include Dr. Josef Mengele, Hitler's geneticist, who tried to turn the world blue-eyed for Aryanism by means of painful ocular injections; he is now reported by Wiesenthal to be hiding in Paraguay. Biggest fish still at large, though, is Deputy Führer Martin Bormann, now 66, who Wiesenthal claims is not only alive...
...most pampered and mysterious ladies of the Italian Renaissance took up official residence in Washington last week. With a minimum of fanfare, Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra dei Bend (see color), acquired from the private collection of Prince Franz Josef II of Liechtenstein for more than $5,000,000 last month, went on display in solitary splendor in the National Gallery's "Lobby B," a small anteroom with a 28-ft. ceiling, limestone walls and a marble floor...
...acek's works is this four-movement suite for piano with six instruments, which enter by ones and twos to sass the piano and one another. Not top-drawer Janácek, but nonetheless vigorous and jazzy with its insistent themes, bold fistfuls of chords and thumping rhythms. Josef Pálenicek is the pianist...