Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1984. július-december (38. évfolyam, 27-48. szám)

1984-10-18 / 39. szám

Thursday, Oct. 18. 1984.

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MERCURIUS VERIDICUS

EX HUNGÁRIA.

A Magyar

Hírmondó,

MIKIIT

ADY, THE PROPHET

Canto: Anno Domini 1918

Inferral things are nowadays happening People against people horribly gathering Saints and criminals equally threatening Faith in Faiths of man steadily weakening

Shelter for man's use hasn't been a-building Hearts and brains suffer hideous battering Those reading this will find it bewildering If indeed anything may yet be mattering

Oh, how lovely dreams have became frightening Oh, how the yokes ever keep tightening Our larders empty, silent our bells We are being fried in flames of foreign hells

Blood rivers, over here keep on overflowing Harvests are out and won't be any sowing Old curses, blasphemies continue on growing Where are we going? Oh, where are we going?

Fiddle-scratching urchins fiddle more and more Merrymaking thousands an immoral bore Jailbirds' faces masquerade in sweetness and light And frightened innocent, escape as they might

Ups

and downs

A look at Hungary’s top 100 companies

Tervid handsome heads bow in stupid trance The true and the good tremble in impotence They who had been young hop into serescence And mass graves beckon the Earth's inhabitants

Saddered mothers give birth in bitterness untold Noble old ovens stare abandoned and cold Ballplaying young boys are enfolded in death Our sweet virgins land on the primrose path

Yet Adam's descendants haven't had their fill, Tired and ignorant, uncaring or ill They wipe their memories of everything at will For they are engaged in the art of the kilL

AdanrVs descendants just kill and kill and kill Their dreams are jammed with peace and good will But on awakening wild again or still Like rabid animals continue the kilL

On meadows of death gallows are going up,

Above them fat vultures gather in a huff They are bored with the dead and fly on and off But Adam's descendants still don't have enough.

(Translated from the original Hungarian by Eugene Bard. Copyright 1981, Library of Congress Catalogue: TXu-76-984.)

One t of those Hungarians, like Kossuth, Bartók, Liszt or Szentgyorgyi who are larger than reality, Ady, the poet (1877-1919) penned this prophetic poem at the height of W. W.I. "God's own pilot}' said of him his loving desciple, László Nagy.

The economic weekly, "Figyeli" (Observer) and the Hungarian Central Statistical Office have compiled a list of Hungary's 100 largest industrial enterprises in 1983, as they have done annually for the past few years.

Of course year by year companies have their ups and downs. For the layman production by value and exports are perhaps the most revealing yardsticks.

At the top of the production list for the third year running the Duna Petroleum Industrial Co. followed by Nagyalfóld Petroleum and Natural Gas Co. That underlines the importance of energy, and the advantage in( this industry of being large. Third comes Raba, the engineering giant, well-known for vehicle engines, rear axles, farm machinery, etc. Vehicles feature fourth too, in the shape of Ikarus, the largest bus manufacturer in Europe.

As a matter of interest, Videoton,

Hungary's TV makers who are now deep into computers, only make 11th place by production value, and Taurus Rubber 18th. Three other household names making the top 25 are Chemical Works of Gedeon Richter (21), Tungsram (22) and Chinoin pharmaceuticals (25).

But the export placings, of course, are different. Here the laurels go to Ikarus, with worldwide( sales of over 12.000 buses. Runner-up is Raba, whose truck components are sold as far afield as the USA. Of the firms mentioned earlier, Videoton is 4th,folThe American Hungarian Culture Club INVITES YOU

to a Banquet and Concert on Oct. 28. 1984, 1 P.M. at the Vanderbilt YMCA, 224 E 47 St. (betw. Third and Second Avenues) New York City.

Guest artists: Laura Sharp, piano, Gregory Gilman, violin.

Speakers: Dr. Antal Borbély, noted psychiatrist and Zoltán Deák, Editor of Hungarian Word, J. Haluska, M.C.

Home-made Hungarian dinner $10.- per plate.

Ten days before a watershed event in American history, this is the occasion where concerned new yorkers should be.

lowed immediately by Gedeon Richter and then Chinoin, underlining the importance of Hungary's pharmaceutical exports.

To many observers, the fact that Taurus is only 11th on the export list, may cause some surprise, particularly as the Hungarian Shipyard and Crane Factory, which was laboring under many problems a few years ago, is ahead of Taurus in 9th place. An even bigger surprise: Medicor, a mediumsized company in production value but a long-time export star, was down at 18 th largest exporter in 1983.

The list provides a lot of food for thought, not least for those closest involved - the companies themselves.

CONFERENCE BUS: The latest trom Ikarus, Europe’s largest bus manufacturer and Hungary’s 4th largest company