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...great mismatches. While she fluttered through Europe, he would rise before dawn to be at his royal desk by 5 or 6 in the morning, as absorbed in the minutiae of bureaucracy as a clerk in a tax office. He apparently enjoyed the stultifying formality of the Hofburg. Once, when he awoke very ill in the middle of the night, he was able to bark only one phrase at the physician who had scurried to him: "Formal dress!" If he had any off-guard moments, they were reserved for his marvelously bourgeois relationship with Actress Katherina Schratt, a love that...
...embodiment of Mitteleuropäische glamour, Marlene Dietrich seemed an ideal addition to the Kaiserball in Vienna's Hofburg, the winter palace of the Habsburgs. Would she care to come and sing? "Would be thrilled and delighted to accept your invitation," Marlene wrote in reply to her invitation, "but unless you agree to my fee of $35,000, all further correspondence will be meaningless." There was no further correspondence. Had Marlene been a little too, well, worldly? Her pressagent had a fast answer: "When you get Dietrich you get the magic, which costs a lot of money...
From Vienna's stately Hofburg Palace, where the Congress of Vienna met to realign Europe 150 years ago, five Prime Ministers and two other representatives of Europe's Outer Seven last week called for a meeting with ministers of the Common Market. They wanted to discuss "strengthening cooperation" and "coordinating policies" of the two blocs. Explained the man who had convened the Seven, Britain's Harold Wilson: "We are in our citadel, they are in theirs. There is no suggestion we should come out of ours waving a white flag. All we suggest is that we both...
Under the great crystal chandeliers of Vienna's Neue Hofburg palace finance ministers and bankers from the 73 Western, African and Asian nations belonging to the International Monetary Fund last week grappled with a problem inconceivable only five years ago. The underlying-though unconfessed-preoccupation of the Vienna meeting; how to keep the U.S. dollar from being bullied by the newly muscular currencies of France, West Germany, Italy and Japan...
...room for two breakfasts?one, of orange juice, rolls and coffee, gulped down at a strategy conference aboard his plane?on the morning of his flight to Vienna. Despite the wet weather, more than 70,000 Austrians turned out along Kennedy's 15-mile journey from Schwechat to Alte Hofburg, the palatial residence of Austrian President Dr. Adolf Scharf. Khrushchev, grinning his cordial peasant best, had not done nearly so well; the Soviet leader drew fewer than 50.000 during his ceremonial motorcade to visit Scharf. Along the way, low whistles (the Viennese version of the Bronx cheer) punctuated thin, tired...