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Hungary's new look is largely the result of efforts by Premier Janos Kadar to wipe out the stain of having personally called in Russian troops and tanks to suppress the 1956 revolution. Having found that a lighter yoke yields greater economic prosperity and less political unrest, Kadar has made Hungary - next to Poland - the most liberal of the satellite regimes. That, of course, is still very much a relative matter, but Hungarians are grateful for small favors. "Times can never be the same again," says...
...prances up behind a sports car to doff his hat to a long-haired blonde in the front seat, only to find that she is an Afghan hound, not a mademoiselle. In a nightclub he sets off a chain reaction when he borrows a cigarette lighter from a girl, discovers it is a lipstick, puts it down on an ashtray; the man at the next table thinks it is a cigar, gets lipstick on his mouth, is slapped by his girl friend...
...long as it does not offend its rulers by being openly antiCommunist. Budapest's relatively relaxed ways are largely the result of efforts by Premier Janos Kadar to erase the bloody stains of 1956, when he personally called in Soviet tanks to crush the revolution. Finding that a lighter yoke yields greater economic prosperity and less political opposition, he has given key managerial jobs to nonparty technicians-and fired inefficient Red bureaucrats. In Budapest coffeehouses the twist has given way to the bossa nova and the Madison. Restrictions against travel have been lifted; last year 6,000 Hungarians were...
Power y. Punch. The freeze on atmospheric testing will preserve the Soviet lead in huge hydrogen bombs, such as the 58-megaton monster the Kremlin exploded during its Arctic test series in the fall of 1961. The tests taught the Soviets much about packing more punch into a lighter weapon, thus giving them valuable information on how to deliver the warhead by rocket rather than by vulnerable bombers. But the U.S. did not bother to invest the time, money and manpower in a big-bang competition with the Kremlin; the biggest U.S. nuclear bombs are in the 25-30 megaton...
Picture of Illness. There was no way of telling from examination of one typical subject if the lump in her left breast was benign or malignant. But the thermogram left little doubt. The picture of the left breast came out lighter than normal; the temperature was about 3° higher than in the other breast. Surgery proved that the lump was cancer. A thermogram of another patient, a 68-year-old man with arteriosclerosis, showed his right leg black from the knee down. Its temperature was below normal. The patient had a blocked artery, was dangerously close to gangrene...