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i f s * i The Battalion College Station (Brazos County/. Texas Everybody Fought Hungarian Aggie Recalls Fighting in Revolution If it were not for a crowded jail, a certain young; man mig'ht not be a student at A&M today. Dressed in blue jeans and west ern style shirt, Andrew Torok would appear to be typical of hundreds of other Civilian students as he goes from classroom to laboratory on the campus. In fact, the 21-year-old youth could well be mistaken for a bas ketball player. He’s 6 foot four. But Torok is hardly a typical student although A&M has many foreign young men on its roster. And he’s not too familiar with the game of basketball. Defended Against Red Regime Just a few months ago, he was wielding a rifle on the streets of Budapest as he and his fellow Hungarians were making a futile attempt to overthrow the Commun ist regime in that country. One of Torok’s assignments for the freedom fighters was to deliver papers to inform people in the rural areas of the uprising. When the revolution was crushed, many of the young men who had helped deliver the papers began disappearing without a trace. That’s when he bid goodbye to his parents and little sister and fled from his beloved homeland. He had some narrow escapes, how ever, before he crossed the border to freedom. When the uprising began in October, 1956, as a 19-year-old he had completed one year of study at the. University of Budapest and was employed as a tool designer. Asked if he took part in the revolution, he replied "Everybody did.” Friend Dies in Attack He was a member of a group of partisans who stormed a building housing a Hungarian military unit under Communist conrol. He and a friend were side by side. A tank rounded a corner —- fired point- blank — and Torok’s friend lay withering on the street, his leg severed. He told of treachery during the fighting. The beseigned defenders waved a white flag but as the crowd surged forward the Com munists lobbed gerenades from the windows. The toll of dead and wounded was high. Torok was arrested on Oct. 28, 1956, while delivering papers in a rural area. He was locked in a stockade but freed three days later when the military camp joined the revolution. Returning to Budapest, he dis covered that his parents had been searching for his body in the cemetery. “Thousands of peonle had been killed and their bodies were taken to the cemetery and laid on the frozen ground. Fam ilies would seek out and bury their own dead,” Torok said. It was at this time that he learned of the disappearance of his friends. His life in danger, he left his parents in tears and began the 150-mile trek to Vienna. His route was through the woods. The Russians kept to the highways be cause he woods were teeming with armed Hungarians. Taken to Jail Tiring, he made the mistake of stopping at a hotel in a small town for a few hours of sleep. He was rudely awaken and hauled off to jail at 2 a.m. It was then that fate took a hand. There wasn’t room in jail for him so the guards confiscated his identification card and releas ed him. He said they didn’t believe he would try to escape for anyone caught near the border without an identification card could be shot as a spy. Fearful that he was being watched, the tall youth remained in the village until just before dawn. Hours later, the near freez ing and hungry young man came to the outskirts of a small town iust inside the Austrian border. He was fed at a mobile .Red Cross unit and then left for a Vienna camp to join thousands of other Hungarian refugees. A month later he received a parole visa to come to the U. S. and on Christmas Day, 195G, he jailed from Germany on a ship bound for Amei'ica. On his arrival at Camp Kilmer, N. J., Torok applied for a job and made application through the world University Service for a college scholarship. His exper ience as a tool designer paid off and within a week he had been employed by a Pennsylvania in dustrial firm. English Was Obstacle One big obstacle remained in his path. He couldn’t speak a word of English. But his employer had a number of refugees on his pay roll so he set up an English school. Young Torok attended eight-hour classes daily and within a month he could write and speak the lan guage of his adopted country. Fate was still kind to the young man from Hungary. He received a one-year scholarship in late 1957 and entered A&M in February, 1958, to study mechanical engi neering. He is taking freshman courses in English and junior courses in mechanical engineering and elec trical engineering and is working part-time as a draftsman for dif ferent parts of the college. Although he misses his parents and sister, Torok plans to stay in this country. He’s looking for ward to the day, about three years off, when he can become a citizen of the United States. 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Easley, 21-year-old jun ior mechanical engineering - ma jor, is another Texan who has ended up spending most of his life in and around Yankeeland. Although Rex was born in Tex as, his dad’s job necessitated the Easley family’s moving to Alex^ andria, Va., some years ago. His dad, Tex Easley, is well known throughout Texas as a Washing ton newspaper columnist. Rex went to high school at Capitol Page School in Washing ton, D. C. He was a page for U. S. Congressmen Wright Pat man and Omar Burleson (both Texans). Rex thinks this was probably the “awakening” period of his life, for it was hebe that he got to know and really appreciate our government. “School got to he a hectic thing,” Rex said. “I had to get up at 5 a.m. every morning, ride a bike two miles to a bus stop and then go to school. I got a lot out of being a page, though, and this didn’t lessen my spirits any.” Rex came to Aggieland as a “fish” in 1955. He was a member of Squadron 17 his freshman year and part of his sophomore year. But then the love bug bit him and off he went to make the big step. Actually, he went back to Washington to earn mon ey so that he would be able to marry the now Mrs. Carol Smith Easley. The big day took place Aug. 31, 1957. Friday, December 5, 1958 Riggs Honored; To Write Article John K. Riggs of the Department of Animal Husbandry was honored recently as one of 14 of the na- fion’s top livestock authorities to "•rite an article for a special issue of the Journal of Animal Science ''ommemorating “Fiftv Years of Pvnerress in Animal Science”. ’f'hev were selected from a mem- hershin of over 1800 in the Ameri- "an Society 0 f Animal Production, any one of whom is an authority on livestock and is qualified to contribute to such a publication, said Dr. O. D. Butler, head of the Denartment of Animal Husbandry. Entitled “Fifty Years of Prog ress in the Nutrition of Beef Cat tle” Riggs told of the progress in j beef cattle feeding in such phases as chemical composition and digest ibility of feeds and forages, utiliza tion of new crops, by-products and former waster products, utilization of poor quality roughages, fats, minerals and vitamins. Citing 183 references of scien tists who have made contributions to beef cattle nutrition’Prof. Riggs 'neluded many who have worked for the Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station. Riggs is not only known for his work in beef cattle nutrition, hut is very widely recognized as a judge of beef cattle in many of the major shows, said Butler. PAGE 8 J. K. Rigg& ... to write article Agronomy to Show Two Films Monday As a part of the seminar pro- gi’am of the Department of Agron omy, two films—“The Atom and Agriculture” and “Agriculture, In dustry and Power”—will be shown at 4 p. m. Monday in Room 105 of the Agronomy Building. The films are being provided by the Atomic Energy Commission and the public is invited to see the films and to take part in the dis- cusssions which will follow the showings. Both films deal with the use of radioactivity in research studies aimed at improving plants and radioactive tracers in the study of fertilizers and how domestic ani mals use specific elements in food. The industrial uses of radiography, engine wear studies, synthetic gas oline studies and others are illu strated along with an explanation of the nature of nuclear reactors, especially power reactors. it For the Latest In Winter Suits Year Round Suits Naturally It’s A&M MEN S SHOP Student Charge Accounts Invited 103 N. Main North Gate jOP TV—The Dinah Shore Chevy Show—Sunday—NBC-TV and the Pat Boone Chevy Showroom—weekly on ABC-TV. ’ * Ni The k-door 9-passenger Kingswood with rear-facing back seat and automatic rear window Be our guest for a pleasure test . 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