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This article presents information related to refugees. The Hungarian refugees in Vienna, Austria, are living lives that cannot be IBM-carded. Most families are broken up, one or more of the adults living in a camp, the children in boarding schools or in private homes. They make fantastic treks to see each other. A man in a camp near Salzburg travels 400 miles each weekend to see his wife who cooks for an American family in Vienna. Their children are in a school in Lower Austria. He has no job; she has the only income in the family. They are more fortunate than some. The Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration has registered 1,898 refugees who are termed "hard-core"; too old, too sick or, for some other reason unable to work and, in most cases, impossible to place. Even those refugees who have skills do not easily find jobs. Although the Austrian economy, at present, is quite firm, it still cannot absorb much outside labor.