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...considered unwise politically. Since Israel was already contemplating a thinout if its Sinai forces in order to cut defense expenditures, Rabin decided to gain some political advantage from the move. The announcement was rushed off to Austria by way of the American embassy in Tel Aviv. It reached Schloss Klessheim, the U.S. quarters for the two-day Salzburg meeting, as Ford was hosting a luncheon there for Sadat that ranged from trout à la meunière and spinach en branches to butter pecan ice cream ring with chocolate sauce. Both Presidents expressed immediate pleasure at the news...
Flying in after the NATO summit in Brussels and a brief stopover in Madrid to visit Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Ford was lodged in Schloss Klessheim, an 18th century baroque chateau with a pink façade. Sadat, eager to size up Ford but unwilling to visit Washington until there is more progress toward peace with Israel, stayed at the elegant, 525-year-old Schloss Fuschl, a hunting lodge...
...teamed up with Max Reinhardt, Richard Strauss and Poet-Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal to start the Salzburg Festival. As recording boss Paumgartner showed his capacity for speed as well as scholarship, as he shuttled between his Mozarteum office and the huge reception hall of the 18th 'century Klessheim Castle, where he finds the acoustics ideal for recording. There, wearing black corduroys and sleeveless sweater, he leads his performers through six hours of recording daily. His energy is matched only by his resourcefulness. At one point, dissatisfied with a soprano's rendition of one passage in Don Giovanni...
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