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Died. Max Ausnit, 69, onetime Rumanian steel and munitions magnate who fled to the U.S. in 1946, later (1948) was charged by the Communist-led Rumanian government with plotting revolution with American and British agents (1948), sentenced him to life imprisonment in absentia (his second such trial; at the first, in 1944, the Nazi puppet government gave him a death sentence after he escaped to Egypt in a stolen bomber); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Third prize ($750) to Rumanian-born Hedda Sterne, 41, for her luminous, evocative New York, shown in last summer's Venice Biennale. Wife of Cartoonist Saul Steinberg, Hedda Sterne takes as her starting point the grid of city streets, blends them with Manhattan's neon lights, ends up with an abstraction she calls "synthetic: nothing is absent and yet it is not a reproduction...
...Germany's young aircraft industry to a halt. Hungary may have to lay off more than 200,000 workers in the next few months, and unemployment is a major problem in Bulgaria. The breakdown of Hungary's vitally located railroad system has prevented the normal flow of Rumanian oil to Poland, forcing the Poles to ration oil and gas. And poor harvests in Rumania, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria have cruelly pinched already inadequate food production; East Germany, which had hoped to end food rationing in 1957, has dropped the idea...
Hungarian and Rumanian athletes who refused to return to their Communist-controlled native countries after the recent Melbourne Olympics will compete in M.I.T.'s Alumni Pool Wednesday night...
What Russia promises and what Russia delivers are often two different things. But Western experts consider the agreement a clear victory for Gomulka. For contrast, they point to the treatment of the Rumanian delegation that recently journeyed to Moscow to ask for a similar agreement. The Rumanians were baldly told that Russian troops will remain in Rumania, and that was that. By its very existence, the Polish agreement created a hope and a promise to the Poles that the Russians must meet their obligations-or arouse the Poles' anger if they...