Yet Bunevacz, a bright-eyed seventy-nine-year-old with a shock of white hair, wearing an official Hungarian Olympic tracksuit, just wanted to tell wild, improbable stories about his younger years.īorn in Hungary in 1941, he trained as an athlete in his teens, as a way, he said, of escaping Communism. ![]() His wife, Filomena, took me through his medical history, consulting a stack of yellow legal pads in which, for the past five years, she has recorded countless tests and treatments. Or so he told me when I visited him at his home, on the arid northeastern slopes of the mountains that separate Los Angeles from the Mojave Desert, to learn more about an experimental medical treatment that he was hoping to receive for a strange and persistent infection in his blood. ![]() Some years before Joseph Bunevacz came to America, and decades before he got sick, he taught the Beatles how to ski.
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