The Eighth Tribe, 1981 (8. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1981-08-01 / 8-9. szám
Page 14 THE EIGHTH TRIBE August — September, 1981 A recent entry into the market of Hungarian1 wines, imported into the United States, is the one liter bottle of Magyar Rizling, produced by the International Vintage Wine Company of Hartford, Connecticut. Until now, Hungarian wines have come in the usual wine bottle containing «even-tenths of a liter. It had been previously imported into Canada, and favorably received by both the Hungarian and non-Hungarian communities. Another recent import on the American market is the Premiat Trnava Castle, a light Riesling wine from the Transylvanian region of Romania. This wine comes from the vineyards located along the Nagy-Küküllő River. Both wines are very economically priced. Due to financial reasons, the Central Planning Board of Hungary has announced a new ruling, whereby construction of certain buildings will be restricted until further notice. New resorts, office buildings, management structures, cultural edifices, and educational buildings will not be built in Hungary. # # * Currently there are two new hotels being built in Budapest. One of these is the Hyatt Budapest Atrium. For years, the Hungarian airline, MALÉV, planned to have its own hotel in Budapest, but for economic reasons couldn’t swing it alone, joined with the Pannonia Hotels Corporation. In 1978 this joint enterprise received Austria credit, when they announced that the new hotel would be affiliated with a known international hotel association. Finally the Hyatt International Corporation of the United States, joined the agreement if the new hotel would be constructed according to the Hyatt concept. The name of the hotel, ATRIUM, was given since it would have a tenstorey inner courtyard or atrium in which three glass elevators would be used. The hotel will have 357 single and two-bed-rooms, several apartments and two Presidential suites. Each room is air-conditioned, and will contain a bath, mini-bar, a several-channel radio, built in alarm clock, color TV on which the hotel will also have its own' programming, plus a phone for long distance purposes. It will also have a pwimmin'g pool, two suanaus, a gymnasium and a solarium. The nearly $800,000 furbishing of the hotel was awarded to the Universal and Poor Decorators of Vienna. Opening date for the Hyatt Atrium is set for May, 1982. mimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim — Why not help this Magazine to grow! — HUNGARY HITS ON A HAIR-RAISING SCHEME TO BRING IN MONEY Hungary, which has often mused about ways to bring in Western currency in the lean months between tourist seasons, has hit upon a hair-raising scheme. Early last year András Bánfi, a former factory supervisor in Békéscsaba, in eastern Hungary, said he had invented a miracle cure for hair restoration. Bánfi, it was said, found inspiration by perusing ancient Egyptian manuscripts, his hobby, and then worked for years to develop the formula to save his own hair, which he said he had done. The product was marketed under the name Bánfi’s Lotion, and when it reached the stores here in March of last year it created a sensation. Balding men thronged to the shops. Because the lotion was in short supply, the lines sometimes became unruly, and policemen were sent to keep order. Doctors who have analyzed the substance said it is made of alcohol, orange oil, royal jelly (from bees) and other ingredients. At least one dermatological clinic has said it might actually be of some help. “I rub it on my head every day,” said a 23-yearold student named László, whose curly brown hair is thinning. “I don't know yet if it will work, but I think it will be useful.” He has been applying the substance for months now with no visible effect. The fight against the receding hairline is about to become a major Hungarian industry. In November the manager of the Hungarian hotel enterprise, Jenő Somogyi, announced a program tailored for foreigners to try to “turn the tide” of balding. It was a most effective way of tiding Budapest over the “dreaded meager months” when tourism is low, a newspaper observed. Meanwhile, the man who started it all, Bánfi, is feeling a bit put out. In an interview in a Hungarian women’s magazine, he noted that his product did not really work for men who are completely bald, and he suggested that fame was not all it was cracked up to be. “It has been hard for me to handle the whole situation,” he said. “My friends and everyone made fun of me. They said I’m a crazy fool. 1 always knew people were envious, but if I had known they were this envious I wouldn’t have started.” The experience, he said, made him drop work on another project — a lotion to stop hair growth.
