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...record-matching half-mile run by Britain's Brian Hewson was scant consolation for the crowd at London's White City Stadium, as Hungary's Laszlo Tabori whipped Three-Mile Champion Chris Chataway in a slow mile (4:05) and three-mile race (13:44.6), to help the Hungarians win a dual meet...
Party Rites. Father Janos' cellmate proves to be Hungary's No. 2 Communist, Leslie Rab, a character clearly modeled on onetime Hungarian Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk, who was purged in 1949 as a Titoist. Rab is the great sinner unknowingly on his way to penance. For the second half of the novel, the good Christian and the still-loyal Communist stage a fascinating intellectual wrestling match for each other's minds and souls. Rab scoffs at the existence of God and His goodness: "Did God create man for misery, for eternal struggle, in order to enjoy...
...Still airsick from his flight to England, Laszlo Tabori, 24, ex-private in the Hungarian army, became the third man in history to crack the four-minute mile. On the rain-softened track at London's White City Stadium, Tabori turned on the steam in the last 300 yards and finished in 3:59. Just .8 second behind, fast enough to get under the four-minute barrier, pounded Britain's Three-Mile Champion Chris Chataway in a virtual dead heat with Half-Mile Champion Brian Hewson...
...chromosome, and Richard Tolman helped prepare the way for the modern theory of chemical-reaction rates. Richard Badger's rule described the relationship between the vibration and size of two-atom molecules. Through his work on the red and yellow pigments of such plants as carrots and tomatoes, Laszlo Zechmeister has determined some of the molecular configurations that are effective precursors of vitamin...
...other side of the artistic fence was the Center's board of directors, spearheaded by Morton Baum, New York lawyer and man-about-the-arts. Three years ago the board sacked adventurous Conductor Laszlo Halasz, installed Joseph Rosenstock, who is more tradition-directed. Last year the board fired key opera staffers without Kirstein's knowledge. Last week's last-straw news: the board had ignored Kirstein's plan to have Composer Gian-Carlo Menotti supervise the opera division and renewed Conductor Rosenstock's contract against Kirstein's wishes. Director Kirstein resigned in protest. Said...