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After private talks with Deputy Foreign Minister Gheorghe Macovescu and intensive briefings from U.S. Ambassador Richard Davis and his staff, Gronouski swept out on a tour of Bucharest's nighttown with his wife, the Davises, and other embassy types. The group staggered to bed at 3:30 a.m., but was up within a few hours to fly on to Prague. There, Gronouski grilled Ambassador Outerbridge Horsey, popped in on a French industrial exhibition, sampled the brew at the Action Vat (a beer hall), prowled the heights of Hradcany Hill, and finished up with a 4 a.m. breakfast...
Broad boulevards and the vast, empty Piata Republicii contrast sharply with the gleaming new apartments on the city's edge. An Italian influence is felt at Bucharest's Continental Bar, where "Miss Dyna Mit" slithers through a tassel-tossing version of Amore Scusami. The entrance price of 10 lei ($1.60) discourages most Rumanians, but the hordes of Japanese and German, English and French businessmen who haunt Bucharest year round take up the slack. The real life of the city is best seen on a winter morning at 5:30 when the first trolleys grind across the frozen tracks...
...hotel in Bucharest is the Athénée Palace, a cozy confection dating from King Carol's day. The neighboring Ambassador is newer but less colorful, though the city's restaurants make up for that. True to Rumania's Latin inheritance, they offer ciorba (a minestrone with sour cream) and mititei (diminutive salami as garlic-laden as any in "Little Italy"). A bow to the West takes in mamaliga-cornmeal porridge that resembles Russian kasha-which is often accompanied by sarmale, stuffed cabbage Hungarian-style. Unlike most Latins, Rumanians are not great winebibbers. Their national...
...Bullfight. Outside of Bucharest, the Latin influence fades quickly into what visitors call "Turkish baroque"-a conglomerate of minarets and mud walls, soaring spiked fences and rambling cattle. Cluj (formerly Klausenburg) is Rumania's second city-with a population of 170,000 and an undeserved reputation as headquarters for Dracula, the world's first Batman. Heartily Hungarian in mood (it is the capital of the Magyar Autonomous Region), Cluj is an intellectual center that serves Bucharest in much the same way that Cracow does Warsaw, or Leningrad Moscow. There the works of Absurdist Eugene Ionesco get a frequent...
...buying from a horde of hungry Westerners. The West German firm of Gutehoffnungshütte won a $20 million share in building the mammoth Galati Steel Mill at the Rumanian end of the Danube-and when the deal was consummated, at a candle-light-cum-gypsy-violin blowout in Bucharest, the Rumanian Deputy Minister for Heavy Industry, Constantin Nācutā, executed a neat hora on the tabletop. Demag and Siemens, Krupp and M.A.N. all add to a German investment in Rumania that exceeds $50 million. Italy's Orlandi is building a $1,000,000 bakery in Rumania...