Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tumbling Walls. At the turn of the century, a German-Austrian expedition uncovered ancient Jericho, and by 1936, explorations had proceeded far enough for a British expedition to determine that the walls of Jericho had indeed fallen with great violence. Reported Expedition Leader John Garstang: "The space between the two walls is filled with fragments and rubble. There are clear traces of a tremendous fire." Says the Bible: "When the priests blew with the trumpets . . . and the people shouted with a great shout ... the wall fell down flat ... and they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein...
...Hungarian doctor said Russian forces massacred 75 demonstrating villagers only ten miles from the Austrian border...
...Since years I am behind Pygmies," says Austrian-born Father Martin Gusinde, 69, who teaches anthropology at Washington's Catholic University of America. Starting in 1934, he studied little brown people in Central and South Africa, the Philippines and the Andes. This year, with the help of a grant from Philadelphia's American Philosophical Society, he went to the interior of Australian New Guinea, where a little-known race of Pygmies lives in the rugged Schrader Mountains. "Such a terrible country!" says Father Gusinde. "In Austria the Alps are a kind of avenue compared to those mountains...
...Thus Austrian Author Lernet-Holenia, 59, himself patrician-born and a former officer of the Imperial Austrian Army, elliptically describes how a ruling class shorn of its power can be startled by phantoms and into fantasies. Yet, in sum, his talent is special, minor, and eccentric -fit literary fare perhaps only for devotees of what might be called seance fiction...
...secret: a field marshal's talent for delegating authority. He maintains secretarial teams or artistic aides in Berlin, Vienna and Milan, employs a roving personal secretary named André Mattoni, who functions as his chief of staff. His wife Anita, herself an effective staff member, lives at their Austrian villa not far from Innsbruck...