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...inhabitants and bringing in $523 million in foreign exchange. The visitors come for the Vienna Staatsoper and the Salzburg Festival, and to ski at resorts like Obergurg, Kitzbuehel, and St. Anton, but above all for the easy informality of Austrian life and the mellow sentimentality of the neighborhood Heurigen (wine festivals). After all, says one Viennese student, "We like eating, drinking, dancing and loving. If that's not the good life, it'll do until something better comes along...
...Election Day a remarkable 96% of the eligible voters, mellowed by warm spring sunshine and batches of Heurigen (new wine), went to the polls in Free Austria's first national election. Result: a gain of eight Parliament seats-to 82-for Chancellor Raab's party, an increase in Socialist seats from 73 to 74. Both parties gained at the expense of the far right and left (Communist groups polled only 4.4% of the vote), but the victory of Raab's party presaged a slowdown in Austria's headlong nationalization...
Everybody in Austria makes fun of "Poldi" Figl, red-faced, horny-handed son of a winegrower. In the music halls, in cafés all around the Ring, in the Heurigen (wine gardens) of Vienna's cobbled suburbs, Figl's country manners, wine tippling, and his let-it-go-till-tomorrow administration are the butts of the people's jokes (and Figl's). They call him "Leopold the Last," but they love...
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