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...days of his exile from the fold, nobody stomped on that "fascist dog" Tito with more enthusiasm than Hun gary's bullet-headed Matyas Rakosi. He eliminated his enemies (notably former Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk) on the charge of "Titoism" and missed no opportunity for verbal abuse of Tito himself. Then Big Brother told all good Communists they had to be nice to errant Little Brother Tito-or else. It was Tito's turn, and he demanded Rakosi eat a full portion of crow, and be quick about...
...others: Second Lieut. Laszlo Tabori, 24, who shares the 1,500-meter record with Iharos; Captain Istvan Rozavolgyi, 26, 2,000-meter record holder; Textile Factory Worker Jozsef Kovacs, 29, who has tied the world record at 10,000 meters; Budapest Fireman Lajos Szentgali, 23, 800-meter specialist...
...Soviet commission was reported to be looking into the case of Rudolf Slansky and 13 Communist comrades, most of them executed in 1952 for "Tito-ism." This suggested that a whole series of "Titoist" purges in the satellite countries (e.g., Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, Hungary's Laszlo Rajk, Rumania's Ana Pauker, Albania's Koci Xoxe) might be reopened. It was given out in Moscow that the last victims on the mad Stalin's liquidation list had been Molotov, Voroshilov and Khrushchev himself...
...City Opera's first general director was Hungarian-born Laszlo Halasz, who spent eight years getting it established, while sidestepping a series of attacks brought on by his toplofty manner. The last arose after his baton flew out of his hand and struck a player. Able Conductor Halasz was sacked in 1951 and replaced by Austrian-born Joseph Rosenstock who staged a world premiere (Copland's The Tender Land) that failed, a New York premiere (Walton's Troilus and Cressida) that succeeded, two gloomy but interesting U.S. stage premieres (Von Einem's The Trial and Bartok...
...meters in 3:40.8 (shared by his countryman, Laszlo Tabori), 3,000 meters in 7:55.6, 2 miles in 8:33.4, 3 miles in 13:14.2 and 5,000 meters in 13 :4O.6...