Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spindletop holes. He became the town bore. Beaumont residents sneeringly called him "the millionaire." Desperate for a believer, Higgins advertised in a New York trade journal the glowing promise of oil, gas and sulphur in Spindletop, and flushed one reply. It was enough. Dalmatian-born Anthony Lucas, one time Austrian naval lieutenant who came to the U.S. to visit and stayed on to work as a mining engineer, agreed to drill for oil on Spindletop...
...problem of choosing the fortunate first-nighters became an affair of state. The Cabinet held special sessions. Finally, the question was settled in a fine, Habsburg-style compromise : the government decreed three "first nights." The first will be Don Giovanni, actually an open rehearsal for government officials, diplomats and Austrian representatives of the arts, admission free...
Four Steps Backward. Taken in larger context, the Soviet groveling at Belgrade was all the more interesting. It represented the fourth recent major reversal of an important Russian position. Within a fortnight, the Soviet Union has 1) signed an Austrian peace treaty that was less favorable to it than a treaty it had been rejecting for years, 2) announced a new disarmament plan that, while still unsatisfactory to the U.S., offered more concessions than ever before, and 3) agreed to Big Four talks "at the summit" under conditions that the Communists had previously denounced. For months, Soviet leaders had said...
World War I: Drafted into the Austrian imperial army, he was a good soldier, won the regimental fencing championship. He was promoted to sergeant major, posted to the Russian front, badly wounded by a cavalryman's lance, captured and sent to Siberia. As a P.W., Tito learned Russian, married his first wife, Pelaghia, got caught up in the Red Revolution. He joined the International Red Guard, became a Communist...
...four: France's Faure, Britain's Eden, President Eisenhower and some still unnamed Russian, presumably Premier Bulganin. The time and place of the meeting are still open questions. The Kremlin favors Vienna, where it might expect to make popular capital out of its concessions on the Austrian State Treaty; the West prefers Lausanne in neutral Switzerland, between July...