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Upstairs Bar. Even the Communist bloc has its problems with prostitution, while indignantly denying that it exists. In Hungary, Budapest's few whores are often booked up nights in advance by visiting Austrian and West German businessmen. "Elisabeth of the Duna," a witty little Magyar who adorns the upstairs bar of the Hotel Duna, is so famous that guards on the Austrian border ask travelers, "Have you anything to declare? Did you see Elisabeth...
Ever since World War II-even through ten years of Soviet occupation-the Austrian government has been run jointly by the conservative People's Party and the Socialist Party, like two polite, equally weighted cousins on an inert seesaw. So scrupulously balanced is the coalition and the Proporz system of dividing up the jobs that, according to Viennese table talk, if there is one People's Party Putz-frau (charwoman) in a government building, there must be a Socialist Putzfrau too. After last November's elections, balance became stalemate; the two big parties have been haggling over...
...strength entitled his party to at least one more ministry. The one in mind: the Foreign Ministry, where Socialist Bruno Kreisky was the prime target of the People's Party reformers. The conservatives argued that a Socialist could not possibly put his heart into the vital negotiations for Austrian associate membership in the Common Market, which, after all, was a triumph of capitalism...
Born. To Nancy Kwan. 25. Hong Kong-born actress, and Austrian Ski Instructor Peter Pock. 25: their first child, a son; in Innsbruck, Austria. Name: Peter Bernhard Pock...
...Austro-Hungarian throne of the Habsburgs without a male heir; in Hütteldorf, Austria. Only five when her father died, she grew up to marry Prince Otto zu Windisch-Graetz but grew steadily disenchanted with her royal life, divorced him after 23 years to drift into socialism, marry Austrian Social Democrat Leopold Petznek and become known as "the Red Princess...