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...zone had closed long before match time, sending streams of disappointed supporters back toward the Kärntner Strasse, where they had paraded in team colors all afternoon, the Austrians in red, the Germans in white, faces painted, voices and beers raised, not necessarily in that order. The taunting was good- natured, even orderly, and watched by "undercover" cops in civilian clothes topped by vests clearly marked "polizei." Clearly, they weren't expecting a rough crowd, but honor was certainly on the line. "If we lose tonight I can't go the office for four weeks," said Steven Riederer...
...plant vegetable gardens, though many parks had already been used for another purpose: the burying of Red Army dead. The Hotel Sacher, which had witnessed much of the monarchy's history and more of its amours, is now a British officers' club. In the Kärntner Strasse (Vienna's Fifth Avenue) the stores are gaping and shattered; at the Cathedral of St. Stephen, Nazi artillery and flames have left the foreparts of the choir and the high altar exposed to the sky. But its 500-year-old spire still rises above Vienna in slender majesty. Viennese...
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