Word: schwarzenbergplatz
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...visit, Jack Kennedy rose early to bone up for the morning's session with Khrushchev, then escorted Jackie to 9 o'clock Mass at St. Stephen's Cathedral. About the same time, Khrushchev solemnly laid a wreath of red carnations at the base of the Russian war memorial in Schwarzenbergplatz, stood with bared head bowed for nearly five minutes before the marble column. Then, just after 10, Kennedy and his advisers drove up to the grey, stuccoed Soviet embassy for a lunch and final matching of wits on nuclear testing, disarmament and Berlin. "I greet you on a small piece...
...what they could; they rounded up a loyal band of local Communists, herded them from stopping place to stopping place, scrambling about to shoot the same few faces from every possible angle. Though they dutifully reported in Pravda that "the center of Vienna has blossomed into smiles-the Schwarzenbergplatz is a sea of people," the Soviet newsmen complained bitterly to Austrian colleagues about the "barbaric" and "uncultured" welcome...
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