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...where the Vienna woods give way to vineyards along the Danube. There they lunched on the sun-dappled patio of a restaurant at a 12th century abbey. Brezhnev took a drive through downtown Vienna, traversing the Ring, passing the Hofburg, and winding up in the courtyard of the Schönbrunn Palace, formerly the Habsburgs' summer residence, which he had asked especially to see. Brezhnev stepped out of his Zil only once, to lay a wreath at the Soviet war memorial (known to Viennese as the tomb of the "unknown plunderer...
...seem truly blue, Vienna last week relaxedly awaited its important visitors. Crowds strolled the Ringstrasse beneath the turrets and towers of the Rathaus, or climbed up into the Vienna Woods to down seidels of foaming beer with their Liptauer cheese and black bread. Children played in the Schönbrunn gardens or stared solemnly at animals in the zoo; young lovers sat in the wine gardens of Grinzing, nibbling gingerbread and drinking young wine...
...Khrushchev will be Kennedy's luncheon guest, and the afternoon talk between the two leaders of East and West is expected to break up by 6 p.m. to allow them time to dress for the gala state dinner to be held in the imperial grandeur of Schönbrunn Palace. On Sunday morning, the President is scheduled to attend Mass in St. Stephen's Cathedral, then drive to the Soviet embassy for five hours of talk-broken by lunch-with Khrushchev. This will give Jackie time to see the famous Lippizaner horses at the Spanish Riding School...
...Austrian," as the French scornfully called her, was born in Vienna in 1755, daughter of the great Empress Maria Theresa. She first skips into history as a little girl "playing at marriage" in the Schönbrunn Palace galleries with a little boy prodigy named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. She was only 14 when her mother and Louis XV sealed their Franco-Austrian alliance by giving her in marriage to the French Dauphin. "Has she any bosom?" asked the aging wolf Louis XV of the emissary who helped arrange the marriage. "Sire, I did not take the liberty of carrying...
...disposition. He could sit at the harpsichord astonishing strangers with his virtuosity and the mature expression of his face-then, suddenly, a favorite cat would come in, and he was off his chair chasing it like any other boy. When he slipped on the floor at Schönbrunn and was helped to his feet by a seven-year-old princess named Marie Antoinette, he thanked her thus: "You are good, and when I grow up I will marry...