Word: austria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quincy House and Atlanta, Ga.; Ronald T. Luke '70 of Kirkland House and Dallas, Tex.; Gary L. Rosenthal '71 of Leverett House and Tulsa, Okla.; and Charles E. Talmadge '71 of Eliot House and Houston, Tex.; the clerk is Thomas G. Stembert '71 of Quincy House and Vienna, Austria; and the treasurer is Scott A. Abell '72 of Matthews Hall Chagrin Falls, Ohio...
...concept of an "international order." It may chafe all concerned, but irritation is acceptable if no one's survival is threatened. In his history of the post-Napoleonic period, A World Restored, and in writing of the later fusion of German states, Kissinger displayed admiration for Metternich of Austria, Castlereagh of Britain and Bismarck of Prussia...
...Henry Grady pressed for the birth of a "New South" in the 1880s. Yet McGill, a Tennessee-born farm boy who always seemed embarrassed by his worldwide acclaim, preferred to think of himself as a reporter. Once a sportswriter, he later covered Hitler's invasion of Austria, the Nürnberg war-crime trials, 18 national political conventions-and he could also be seen scrambling through smoke-choked buildings on fire stories. Indeed, as the Constitution's editor, and particularly as its publisher since 1960, McGill proved too kindly to crack the editorial whip that the slipping newspaper...
Married. Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach, 31, scion of the Krupp steel corporation who receives an allowance o $500,000 a year as a quitclaim on the empire founded by his great-great-grandfather; and Princess Henriette von Auersperg, 35, elegant blonde daughter of one of Austria's oldest (13th century) houses; both for the first time; in a civil ceremony in Blühnbach castle former retreat of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination triggered World...
...tale into a complex and moving novel with sharp historic resonances. The grieving Graff delves into Siggy's notebooks, which contain a somewhat fictional history of his parents and of the marks laid upon their lives by experiences during and immediately after World War II in Yugoslavia and Austria. Siggy calls these notes his "prehistory," and his recollected stories seem touched by the bizarre influence of Gunter Grass. On the day in 1938 when Austria capitulates to Hitler, for example, a man whom Siggy's mother loved but did not marry creates hysteria in Vienna by running around...