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In Israel, a British legation official dropped in to visit Dr. Chaim Weizmann, chatted pleasantly and left after a while with a signed paper that finally relieved Israel's President of his British citizenship.
Paprika & Disguises. Szent-Gyorgyi, now 55, grey-haired and dynamic, won his Nobel Prize in 1937 for isolating vitamin C (ascorbic acid) from the plants of one of Hungary's favorite vegetables, paprika. As Nazi influence grew in Hungary, he found that his research was a handy cover for...
Psychiatrics notwithstanding, most Viennese theatergoers took Harvey to their hearts as simply as a child takes his Easter bunny. Restaurant-keepers, says Vienna's Elwood Dowd (Actor Oscar Karlweis), are constantly thrusting gift packages at him. Most of them contain cabbage and carrots for the kindly rabbit who nightly...
The Hills of Buda. U.S.-Hungarian relations deteriorated in a rapid spiral. First, the Hungarian government "requested" Robin Steussy, third secretary of the U.S. legation in Budapest, to leave the country, after charging him with helping Hungarians to escape into Austria.
To restore some contact with the outside world, Fu ordered construction of an airstrip on the polo ground of the old legation quarter, in the heart of the city. Gangs of padded-gowned forced labor leveled telephone poles, trees and buildings on the approaches to the strip. Enterprising citizens dashed...