Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wealth and want are spinning ever farther apart. Life in Madrid is a pattern in extremes. The capital has Europe's most elegant and epicurean restaurants; among the best is the one operated by the famed German restaurateur Otto Horcher, who used to serve Nazi bigwigs in Berlin, Vienna and Paris. Store windows on the Gran Via display nylons, furs, silks, satins, perfumes...
...fear had been sharpened anew last week by such varied signs of Russian aggressiveness as her pressure on Iran, and Manchuria (see FOREIGN NEWS), her continued use of Communists in other countries for Russian ends, and a strongly documented report from Vienna by New York Timesman John MacCormac on Russian tactics that had killed any early hope of restoring Austria's independence...
...Vienna, where 180,000 Jews had lived before the war, only 500 now had regular jobs...
Died. Dr. Adolf Lorenz, 91, Viennese orthopedic specialist whose well-publicized knifeless cures of crippled kings and commoners earned him world fame; in Vienna...
...revolution is another testimonial to Poland's national stamina. Once Poland was the mightiest nation of eastern Europe. Jan Karol Chodkiewicz's fearsome Winged Hussars (see cut) defeated the Turks at Chocim in 1621, and 62 years later Jan Sobieski beat them back from Vienna. The Polish military tradition still burns bright; World War II's Warsaw and Monte Cassino will be remembered. And yet, as Poland under her conquerors has gone from disaster to disaster, the tradition of struggle by patience and stealth has replaced the tradition of chivalry. Last week a Western diplomat, commenting...