Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1981. január-június (35. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)
1981-05-07 / 19. szám
AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZÓ BIMBBBISHa Bü—H BRITISH SPIED ON WRIGHT BROTHERS SANTA BARBARA — The British spied on the Wright brothers a full year before their famous flight at Kitty Hawk. This is one of the disclosures made by history professor Alfred Gollin of the University of California, Santa Barbara last month in his talk on “The Politics of British Air Power” at the Pacific Coast Conference of British Studies at UCSB. His research was conducted among unpublished sources in various archives in Great Britain and the U.S. What motivated the British to engage in such unsportsmanlike conduct as spying on their American cousins? The answer lies in the reaction of a prominent British newspaper magnate to the news that powered flight was a reality: “The story is not that man can fly, but that England is no longer an island.” “There was good reason for this extraordinary British interest and vigilance”, Gollin said. “For centuries and ages past they had defended their island home by controlling with their fleets the far and narrow seas. “Now/ when a machine that could fly through the air made its appearance,it meant their defensive strategy had to be completely changed. It was realized they lay open to invasion from the air.” This realization was grimly prophetic: less than four decades later, enemy aircraft almost destroyed the British defenses as a prelude to a planned invasion. But back to the spv. He was Patrick Alexander, a prominent member of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain.. He became so friendly with the Wright brothers that they invited him to Kittv Hawk to view what was to become the first successful flight in history of a motor-powered airplane. Though in the U.S. on that 17th of December in 1903. he somehow missed the boat—or, rather, the plane. Dance: Reka and Co. in Homage to Bartók EXCERPTS FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW Reka, a Hungarian-born choreographer, teacher and performer based in New York, has given several concerts around the city in recent weeks to celebrate the composer Bela Bartók in his centennial. Reka and Co. performed five dances to Bartok- scores recently at the Symphony Space. It isn’t every dance concert that has such music and performances like those of the violinists Karla Boros and David Friedman and particularly Nancy McDill on the piano. But dance was hardly a negligible Let us learn Hungarian TRAVELING UTAZÁS What time [at which station, platform] does the train arrive? What time do we. get to ...? . . . is two hours’ run from here. The running is very good on this line. All change [or .. .1 The train is half an how- late. If we don’t get a move on, we shall miss the connection. How long do I have to wait at . . .? Where is the way out? Mikorjmclyik állomásra peronra] érkezik meg a vonat? Mikor érkezünk ... -be? ... innen két órai út, Jó a közlekedés ezen • a vonalon. Átszállás .. . felé I A vonat fél órát késik. Ha nem hozza be a késést, nem kapunk csatlakozást. Mennyit kell várnom . . . -ben? Merre van a kijárat? l 'nr inscriptions at the station see Appendix B, p. 230. 3. Travelling by Air I want to travel by air. Is there a direct air(line) service between Budapest and Bruxelles? Is there a direct service to London? 3. Utazás repülőgépen Repülőgépen akarok utazni. Van közvetlen légi járat Budapest és Brüsszel között? Van közvetlen légijárat Londonba? item on the program. Reka is a low keyed original with an eye for the unusual performers. The first lot of beguiling dancers were 14 youngsters from the Underground Day Care Center. They moved through the skipping, walking and running dance-games of “For Children” with impressive naturalness. The tiniest, plumpest girl almost stole the show, dancing with unselfconscious abandonment and the sense of style of a very small Isadora Dun-1 can. I AMEÜKAI '• r MAGYAR sza USPS 023-980 ISSN 9194-7990 Published weekly, exc. last 2 weeks in July and 1st week in August by Hungarian Word, Inc. 130 E 16.St. New York, N.Y. 10003. w — " _ . Ent. as 2nd Class Matter, Dec. 31.1952 under the Act of March. 21.1879, at the P.O. of New York, N.Y. Szerkeszti a Szerkesztő Bizottság Előfizetési árak New Yorkban, az Egyesült Államokban egy evre $ 18." félévre $ 10.- Kanadaban és minden más külföldi országban egy évre $ 20.- felevre $ 12.Postnjastert Send address changes to - ! Hungarian Word, Inc. 130 E 16 St. j New York, N:Y. 10003. Thursday, May 7. 1981. 2. SEAMEN DENOUNCE REAGAN’S POLICIES Following is part of the text of a statement of policy on President Reagan’s economic program unanimously adopted by the ILWU /International Longshoremen’s & Warehousemen’s Workers Union/ Executive Board. We are particularly concerned with the real hardships that will be caused by the proposed massive ; cuts in social programs. Some 300.000 public sector jobs will be phased out. Food stamps, medicaid, student loans and other forms of federal aid to our beleaguered public educational system will be I slashed \ A wide variety of programs to assist depressed urban areas will also be destroyed. The groundwork has been laid for an attack on social security. Particularly offensive to the trade union movement are cutbacks in extended unemployment insurance, black lung benefits and trade adjust - ment assistance. These and other federally funded social programs have been created over the years precisely because of the inability of the private sector, left to itself, to provide full employment and a decent standard of living. While it is fashionable these days to decry waste and fraud in these programs, the fact is that such social spending is often the only thing standing between many members of this society and permanent, bottomless depression. The pretense that a $ 59.3 billion business tax break over the next five years will take up the slack by stimulating the creation of jobs in the private sector is the crudest deception, if past experience is any guide the resulting dramatically increased business revenues are much more likely to be invested in electronics plants in Singapore, or in condominiums in Arizona, than in modernizing the US auto or steel industries, or other productive endeavors. Tax cuts on individual income are geared to the needs of the wealthiest members of this society - a $ 100.000 a year corporate executive with a family of four will save nearly $ 17.000 over the next four years under the current proposals. The Reagan program is a prescription for higher profits for a few and economic disaster for the rest of us. It will not reduce inflation because it does not cut, but in fact increases, the single most inflationary item in the federal budget, military expenditures. It does not address itself to a monopolistic pricing structure which permits a handful of corporations and financial institutions to set prices almost at will. It destroys whatever modest progress has been made toward reducing energy costs by encouraging the development of alternative sources. It will not reduce unemployment because it is based on a “trickle-down” theory of economics which has been proven wrong time and time again. Books can be borrowed in almost every settlement in Hungary. Readers can choose from 10 million volumes in over five-thousand community libraries and in five-and-a half thousand trade union libraries, Twelve thousand librarians check out some fifty million books a year to readers and borrowers. “Tell me, Kovács, is this car yours?” “That depends.” “On what?” “When there’s shopping to do, it’s my wife’s, when my daughter goes to a disco, it’s hers, when it needs repairs, it’s mine.”
