Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dreaming of empire, France's Napoleon III sent mild-mannered, well-intentioned Austrian Archduke Maximilian to rule Mexico while the U.S. was busy fighting its Civil War. But Napoleon had to abandon "Emperor" Maximilian to the advancing forces of Mexican Patriot Benito Juárez, and the pathetic Austrian went gallantly before a firing squad in Mexican shirt and cowboy trousers, dividing his few remaining gold coins among his executioners...
...tiny (pop. 2,371) Pöcking, West Germany, Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 46, son of the last Austro-Hungarian monarch (Charles I) and pretender to the nonexistent Austrian throne, admitted that he had given up the good fight for feudalism, hoped to enter his homeland (from which he was barred so long as he wanted to run it) as just plain Dr. Otto Habsburg. The likely new pretender: Otto's younger brother, Archduke Robert, 44, who waits for the impossible, in Paris...
...very soul of wit as a brace of old and dear friends-Pakistan's filly-following Delegate Aly Khan and Opera Outcast Maria Callas-squashed her in with socially correct shoulder blocks. Later, contemplating a frothy dinner she hosted (in another friend's apartment) for magisterial Austrian Conductor Herbert von Karajan, Elsa sighed publicly about her people-nabbing prowess: "Why, I wonder, am I blessed with such friends?" neglected to add an answer...
Pire bring his "gypsies" around; an Austrian village wanted to erect a high wall around the D.P.s to keep them from stealing the farmers' apples. But one by one, Pire's five villages were begun. (One is named after Albert Schweitzer; he wants to name his next after Anne Frank...
...idea won medical-intellectual backing in the 18th century, is now suggested obliquely by Lolita and Humbert Humbert. Neither have they any use for rejuvenators such as the animal-testicle elixir developed by British Physiologist Brown-Sequard, the severing of the seminal vessels advocated around 1920 by the Austrian Steinach, or the monkey-gland transplants of the long-lived (1866-1951) Serge Voronoff...