Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the name Vienna sets up resonances that belong to the past: candlelight, slow waltz music, fiacres, lindentree parks, the Danube and the Prater -a capital jewel in the crown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, doomed to obliteration by transitional winds. The old Vienna has its surviving spirits, none sturdier than Heimito von Doderer, at 70 Austria's foremost novelist. A courtly and playful Viennese, Von Doderer remembers with fondness the city as it was half a century ago. The Waterfalls of Slunj is his love song to that twilight time, the first of an intended four-volume epic...
...done for the Orioles was to trade them Outfielder Frank Robinson, 31. Last week Robinson was leading the league in hitting (.316), home runs (49) and runs batted in (120), bade fair to become the first player since Mickey Mantle in 1956 to win batting's Triple Crown-and was practically a cinch for the Most Valuable Player Award. All the Orioles gave up in exchange for Robinson was Pitcher Milt Pappas (1966 record: 10 wins, 11 losses) and a second-string outfielder...
...Imperial Crown 2-dr. hardtop...
SATURDAY THE RABBI WENT HUNGRY by Harry Kemelman. 249 pages. Crown...
...Better Life. "He's taking back everything but the crown jewels," marveled a U.S. official after Marcos tied up his aid package. Few members of the Johnson Administration would be grudge him his prize. Washington learned the mettle of the Filipinos a decade ago, when they won their own counterinsurgency war without foreign troops, and may find their experience even more relevant today. As Marcos remarked to the National Press Club last week, suppressing the rebels involved a two-pronged approach-"total war against the Communists and total friendship to the people, who may be misled and who constitute...