V Vienna, Austria Fifteen or so years ago. I had occasion to spend two weeks in Vienna, giving some lectures in the Technical University. My host was O. Univ - Prof. Dr. hc mult Hans H. whose professional work I admired. I was cohosted by his charming and capable assistant Obraetin i.R. Fraulein Dr.phil Teresa T. I checked into the Hotel Erzherzog Rainer which was located just a few streets away from the University. In the hotel lobby there was a portrait of the Archduke, and sufficient reading materials lying around to inform me (and other tourists) that the Archduke Rainer Ferdinand Maria Johann Evangelist Franz Ignaz had been a Prime Minister of Austria and was a considerable papyrologist. This fact was certainly eyebrow raising. I daresay that not many Heads of State have been papyrologists. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a philatelist. Bill Clinton plays the saxophone. Fraulein Dr. T was no sylph and was a considerable trencher woman to boot, and when guided by such a person, the immediate vicinity of the TU became a gourmand’s international paradise. I have eaten there, e.g., schwarma, wonton, crepes hongroise, Turkish couscous, mini-schnitzelettes on a semmel (in the Imbiss across the street), gai phad , a Viet delicacy, and I shouldn’t forget that I ate a good old American hamburger in Macdonald’s located in the underground passageway in Karlsplatz. One day at noon Fraulein Dr. said to me Let’s walk “ over the Naschmarkt and I’ll introduce you to palatschinken. Do
V Vienna, Austria Fifteen or so years ago. I had occasion to spend two weeks in Vienna, giving some lectures in the Technical University. My host was O. Univ - Prof. Dr. hc mult Hans H. whose professional work I admired. I was cohosted by his charming and capable assistant Obraetin i.R. Fraulein Dr.phil Teresa T. I checked into the Hotel Erzherzog Rainer which was located just a few streets away from the University. In the hotel lobby there was a portrait of the Archduke, and sufficient reading materials lying around to inform me (and other tourists) that the Archduke Rainer Ferdinand Maria Johann Evangelist Franz Ignaz had been a Prime Minister of Austria and was a considerable papyrologist. This fact was certainly eyebrow raising. I daresay that not many Heads of State have been papyrologists. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a philatelist. Bill Clinton plays the saxophone. Fraulein Dr. T was no sylph and was a considerable trencher woman to boot, and when guided by such a person, the immediate vicinity of the TU became a gourmand’s international paradise. I have eaten there, e.g., schwarma, wonton, crepes hongroise, Turkish couscous, mini-schnitzelettes on a semmel (in the Imbiss across the street), gai phad , a Viet delicacy, and I shouldn’t forget that I ate a good old American hamburger in Macdonald’s located in the underground passageway in Karlsplatz. One day at noon Fraulein Dr. said to me “ Let’s walk over the Naschmarkt and I’ll introduce you to palatschinken. Do