Word: transylvanians
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Over it all hovered Golden Door Keeper Edmund Bordeaux Szekely (pronounced Saykay), a bald, round-bellied Transylvanian who obviously shuns his own exercises. Entrepreneur Szekely is a sometime archaeologist, philosopher, biochemist and author (he claims 69 books). By his own admission, he speaks 14½ languages, the 50% lingo being English. His cosmetics, says he grandly, are drawn from history, e.g., General Potemkin's letters taught him the oils used by Catherine the Great (Siberian fir needles, hay, geranium and lilac), and Anne Marie's exercises are supposedly based on a calisthenics drill devised by Leonardo da Vinci...
...many companies, served as a minister in the archconservative Cabinets after World War I, was a deputy in the Synod of the Rumanian Orthodox Church. In 1927 came the great change; Millionaire Groza abruptly abandoned what he called the "Sodom and Gomorrah" of Rumanian politics, retired to his Transylvanian estates, led a lusty Rabelaisian life and, in his words, "learned to think dialectically." Translation: Groza, an opportunist of agility, saw Russia as a coming power...
...Dances of Marosszék (Andor Foldes, pianist; Vox, 3 sides). Kodály (pronounced Kó-die-ee), who with the late Béla Bartók spent years researching and recording Hungarian folk music, based these picturesque fantasies on Transylvanian dances; Pianist Foldes plays them with the insight and technique of a native Hungarian, which he is. Recording: good...
...Mihai tried a surprise move: he appointed elegant, 71-year-old Prince Barbu Stirbey, lover of the late Queen Marie of Rumania, to form a new Government. When Stirbey's attempt failed, Mihai appointed Dr. Peter Groza, aggressive leader of the troublemaking Democratic National Front - a thickset, moonfaced Transylvanian in the early 60s, whose large inherited land holdings qualified him to head the Ploughmen's Front. Until last year Groza was a small-time Balkan politician who made headlines when two angry landlords beat him up in the foyer of Bucharest's Athenee Palace Hotel...
...Russians were already less than 50 miles from Budapest. A tank battle was already raging on the Hungarian plain. The country was ideal for motorized attack. By this week Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky had widened his front to 120 miles, captured Szeged, Hungary's second largest city, the Transylvanian capital of Cluj, and drawn near to Debrecen, where Patriot Louis Kossuth once declared Hungary's independence. But Malinovsky had a long, tenuous supply line, might be delayed until it was strengthened...