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Better Luck Next Time. In Hong Kong, while walking down a hall to his apartment, Law Kun-suk tore a pair of panties from an overhead line because it is supposed to be bad luck to walk under them, was clouted over the head by the irate owner, next day received a six-week jail sentence for property destruction...
Paper Palaces. When one of the "active" members of the tai Ian kun (The Club of the Most Critical Moment) is dying, a roast-pig dinner is laid before him, and Taoist priests chant prayers that he will be transported to heaven. Women fold silver joss papers that cost 40? a 1,000 but are thought to be worth 1,000 silver dollars in paradise. The average traveler to the next world gets about 10,-000 pieces of silver, a ricksha, a medium-sized house-all made of paper. The better off, who can pay $330 for a big funeral...
Died. Imre Horvath, 57, Hungary's Foreign Minister, longtime (since 1918) Communist, onetime gun-toting activist (in Bela Kun's post-World War I Red rebellion) and Minister to the U.S. (1949-51), who saw his own son Imre and his nephew Alexander turn freedom fighters in the 1956 revolt, then flee to Austria; after a gallstone operation; in Budapest...
Last week, in an effort to get the Hungarian Communist Party on its feet again, Puppet Kadar announced a new 14-man central committee and a reshuffle in the party secretariat. To be his first deputy president: Ferenc Munnich, 71-year-old Communist veteran of the Bela Kun regime, the Spanish civil war and long residence in Moscow, who as Minister...
...lived since 1948. A younger son of petite noblesse, Horthy became a naval cadet at 14, rose rapidly, was made admiral of the Austro-Hungarian fleet after he faced down a mutiny late in World War I. In 1920, as the apocalyptic Red Terror of Leninist Bela Kun burned itself out. Horthy seized Budapest, got himself declared Regent of Hungary, earned the enmity of his country's liberals by letting the bloody White Terror reaction to Kun go unchecked. Virtual dictator of Hungary in the '20s and '30s, Horthy in 1940 made his country the Axis powers...