Word: nov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amazed to notice how closely this year's official Inaugural Medal resembles TIME'S Nov. 12 cover. I wonder if there is any connection between...
...None. President Eisenhower decided on this year's medal before TIME'S Nov. 12 cover appeared, the second time in history that the medal has shown two profiles (the first: Taft and James S. Sherman in 1909). For the resemblance noted by Reader Grady, see cuts...
...beginning of November and sent it to the laboratory, by that time under rebel control, for processing. Some of the rebel leaders wanted it sent out to the West to be developed, but Ferenc insisted on its being done under his supervision. He curses himself for that decision. On Nov. 4, the day the Soviet army came charging back into Budapest, one of the first places they captured was the film laboratory...
Ferenc awoke on Nov. 4 to the sound of heavy Russian artillery. Hearing that the rebels were handing out weapons at the Piarist school, he went there and collected a rifle, two hand grenades and 40 rounds of ammunition. He took five gallons of gasoline from his father's garage and went to look for someone to fight with. Says he: "At the corner of Baross Street and the Great Ring, I went into a restaurant and found eight Freedom Fighters. They looked all right, so I joined them." Together they barricaded Baross Street and cut out an escape route...
...waste the once-gay Danube city of Budapest. This time they were Russian Communists, and close behind them as they marched came another army of political agitators, experts of the secret police, and a parasitic host of Hungarian expatriate Communists. In the first post-war election held on Nov. 4. 1945, the Communists came in a bad third, with only 800,257 votes to stack up against the 2,688,161 votes of the democratic Smallholders Party, which was led by Bela Kovacs and Ferenc Nagy...