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...West of The Taste of Power, by the Slovak writer Ladislav Mňačko. Although his book has not been published in Czechoslovakia, Mňačko, 47, made no attempt to crawl under cover. Setting a precedent for a "protest" novel, he dealt personally with Austrian Publisher Fritz Molden, expects his book to appear before long throughout Europe...
...good deal, and Father approved. "Like the Brontės," he says, "she lived in great islands of imagination that were entirely her own creation." Daydreams found an outlet in play acting. With Brother Corin, Vanessa performed for several years an almost daily drama in which he was an Austrian prince and she was the President of the U.S.?Daddy's girl was already ambitious. When Lynn came along, she was allowed to play a dog or a cat. "And I liked that," she says, "because dogs and cats got fed things, and it was even all right if they...
...house, already bequeathed to the Smithsonian, is furnished with Gobelin tapestries and Louis XVI furniture (including chairs made for Marie Antoinette). It is surrounded by a garden with plants from Buckingham Palace and Mount Vernon. In the French Regency dining room, guests-including Cabinet Ministers and royalty-eat from Austrian Emperor Franz Josef's gold-plated service. Recently, the White House gratefully accepted Mrs. Post's gift of some of her extra tablecloths. The pleasures are somewhat simpler at Topridge, mountaintop summer hideaway near Saranac Lake, N.Y. Guests are flown in aboard Mrs. Post's 16 passenger...
Three weeks ago, a pretty German became the first known hit-and-run skier to be arrested. Skiing down an Austrian Alp, she had crashed into another girl, jabbing a ski pole through her cheek, and then disentangled herself to schuss merrily on down without so much as a word. But because no law covers the situation precisely, it is uncertain just what will happen to the offender...
...ruin the sport," moans Paul Maschke, a lawyer, and president of the Radstadt Ski Club. "They would soon be issuing skiing licenses the same as drivers' licenses." But if the growing popularity of skiing continues to increase the population on any incline with snow, the view of another Austrian lawyer, Dr. Karl Homann, is likely to pack more weight. "Rules are not enough," he says. "You need laws to stop careless skiing. The sport may have risks, but having to bear the carelessness of another is unfair...