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...wonder: is it the paprika . . . ? THOMAS N. FORIS Mill Valley, Calif...
...Paprika Power Sir: Having followed the outcome of the Olympic Games since 1936, I conclude that the award for overall winner should go to Hungary. This small nation has maintained its No. 1 position, on a number-of-medals-per-capita basis, ever since Berlin...
...suspicious number of pretty, miniskirted hitchhikers have blossomed on Yugoslav highways; in foreign accents, they ask drivers who give them lifts all sorts of unfeminine questions about Yugoslav troop deployments. Journalists from Warsaw Pact countries are more inquisitive than ever. Hungarian truck drivers carrying loads of tomatoes and paprika to Yugoslav markets wander off the main road and somehow blunder into Yugoslav troops in border regions. Tito fears that Soviet agents, working with die-hard ethnic groups, will make an attempt on his life. But both sides can play that game. Last week three leaders of an exile group...
Gabor got hers on a subsequent show when Society Chronicler Suzy explained that "Zsa Zsa has an age complex, and she has a right to one." After all, continued Suzy, wasn't she "Miss Chicken Paprika...
Thus such a subversive ditty as Sandy Shaw's Puppet on a String has been recast in Hungary as Paprika Puppet; the Spotniks' Walking Back to Happiness has become an ode to the joys of a country cottage, one of the most coveted status symbols among crowded Czech city dwellers. "The main problem with American lyrics is that they are too gushy for our listeners," says one member of the Text Writers' Circle, which supervises all song translations in Czechoslovakia. "Under our system we are conditioned to be less sentimental...