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Sprat & Schilling. For the Soviets, who insisted on Austria's military neutrality in the treaty, it was a gamble, or, as one observer put it, "the Danubian sprat to catch a fatter German mackerel." But Germany has not reunited on the Austrian model, and Austria has become a thriving monument to capitalism. More than 80% of its soaring foreign trade is with the West, and the schilling is one of the free world's soundest currencies, backed 125% by gold and foreign-exchange reserves...
Sebastian's story begins as the summer idyl of a well-to-do youth on his family's Danubian estate. His sleep of innocence is torn awake by the discovery of corruption all around him, including incest between his sister and oldest brother. Sebastian flees from home and enlists in the army to find "purity and heroism" in combat; he becomes a daredevil tank commander on the East ern Front as Rumania joins the Axis in the war against Russia. Again reality catches up with the dream, as he witnesses such atrocities as the poisoning of village wells...
...Devil Himself. The son of a railway stationmaster, Schiele lived most of his childhood in the drowsy Danubian town of Tulln, 14 miles northwest of Vienna. He was an emotional, lonely boy who spent so much time turning out drawings that he did scarcely any schoolwork. When he was 15, his parents finally allowed him to attend classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Even there he did not last for long. Cried one professor after a few months of Student Schiele's tantrums and rebellion: "The devil himself must have defecated you into my classroom...
...appeal, and decided that there might be a market for the Szabo voice. He dreamed up a new record label (Hammerlock), and recorded Szabo in two appropriate songs: Take Me in Your Arms and It's All in the Game. To the accompaniment of gypsy strings, Sandor exudes Danubian charm...
Instead, the Western nations let Vishinsky steal the show. They heard him make the fantastic charge that they were trying to treat the Danubian states "as a cook treats potatoes." That was too much for icy, pink Sir Charles Peake, Britain's delegate. Stung, but not exactly hopping, Sir Charles announced that he would reply to Vishinsky the next day. When Sir Charles was ready to speak, Vishinsky cracked that he was happy to note that the British representative "after 72 hours had gathered enough strength to answer...