Word: habsburgs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obscure German nobleman named Rudolf of Habsburg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1273 when an assemblage at Aachen shouted "Fiat...
...Otto Habsburg, and not with a Fiat but a Mercedes...
According to his pedigree, the fellow is Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Galicia and Illyria, King of Jerusalem, Duke of Cracow, Lothringen, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Silesia, Modena and Parma. But Otto von Habsburg, 53, son of the last Austro-Hungarian monarch (Karl I), has long since given up building castles in the air. Several times he has renounced his pretensions to the nonexistent thrones, though never with enough conviction to satisfy the Austrian government, which refused him entry into his homeland. Now the government has relented. He may come back from Bavarian exile any time...
...Socialists, in turn, have publicly accused the People's Party of black schemes to permit the return of Otto Habsburg, pretender to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and restore to him part of the family's nationalized fortunes. The Socialists have vehemently blocked Otto's reentry, to the vast relief of a great many Austrians who recall the empire with a vivid mixture of nostalgia and Angst. So powerful an issue is the long-dead monarchy that the campaign has even been enlivened by a Dusseldorf human-relations counselor, Dr. Theodor Rudolf Pachmann, who last month petitioned...
During the Thirty Years' War, the Hradčany was sacked by the Swedes, who floated bargeloads of art homeward down the Elbe. The Habsburg descendants contributed to the losses. In 1749, Empress Maria Theresa sold off 69 paintings at bargain rates. After the Habsburgs moved their imperial seat to Vienna, they removed Rudolf's collection from Prague. Between 1865 and 1894 alone, Vienna's palaces gained 312 pictures, including Cranachs, Bruegels and Bassanos. The dispersal has gone on until art from Rudolf's Schatzkammer now hangs across the world, from New York's Metropolitan...