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...Moscow to the water meadows of the Ukraine to bag a string of ducks. Last week Nikita Khrushchev traveled all the way to Yugoslavia to indulge his hobby in one of Europe's more exclusive hunting grounds: the vast domain at Belje, once a sporting ground of the Habsburg princes, now a model "socialist farm" and preserve of Marshal Tito and his cronies. In a happy day's hunting Khrushchev potted three chamois, one stag. But even as the guns barked at Belje, it was evident-and local Communists were saying-that Comrade Khrushchev had come to Yugoslavia...
Married. Archduchess Charlotte of Habsburg, 35, middle daughter of Empress Zita and the late Charles I (last Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), sister of Austrian Pretender Archduke Otto of Habsburg, and longtime (1943-56) welfare worker (under the name of Charlotte de Bar) in Manhattan's East Harlem; and Duke George of Mecklenburg, 56; she for the first time, he for the second; in Pocking, Germany...
Married. Princess Elisabeth of Luxembourg, 33. blonde elder daughter of Grand Duchess Charlotte; and Prince Franz Ferdinand von Hohenberg, 28, grandson of Habsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28, 1914, touched off World War I; in Luxembourg...
...Journalist Max Eastman as "quaint and gnomelike." Freud's voice, too, was gentle. But the master of psychoanalysis could be as imperious as a Habsburg in defense of his rights or his realm. And the man who listened to the most intimate secrets was not good at keeping them; he was often embarrassingly indiscreet...
...seats. From the U.S. came pleas backed by blank checks; others offered as much as $500 for one ticket. The problem of choosing the fortunate first-nighters became an affair of state. The Cabinet held special sessions. Finally, the question was settled in a fine, Habsburg-style compromise : the government decreed three "first nights." The first will be Don Giovanni, actually an open rehearsal for government officials, diplomats and Austrian representatives of the arts, admission free...