Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walter Michael Palmers, an Austrian tycoon who was kidnaped and ransomed for $2 million, upon returning home to a crush of reporters: "Gentlemen, I am one hundred hours late for dinner. Now I must first make my excuses to my wife. You will understand that this may take some time...
...which the body recognizes invading germs and orders up antibodies against them. The variety used in San Francisco contained antigens from eight of the most common types of pneumococci. Other recent field trials have involved vaccines with as many as 14 different antigens. Surveying these tests, Dr. Robert Austrian of the University of Pennsylvania concludes that the vaccines are safe, at least 80% effective and apparently provide long-term immunity...
...Austrian-born Schwarzenegger radiates the ultimate make-out charm. He is confident but not offensive, self-centered but no braggard. He intersperses his jokes with winks and smiles that expose the boyish split between his front teeth. However dubious people may consider his athletic achievements--six Mr. Olympia and five Mr. Universe titles--nobody can call him a bore. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a P.T. Barnum with muscles...
Wiesenthal's image in Austria has suffered because of a row with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky over former Nazis in Austrian politics. "Two old Jews fight, and the SS men laugh," says Wiesenthal sadly. He realizes that he may have to be content with what he calls "the biological solu-tion"-the hope that Mengele, who has circulatory ailments, will die soon. But that would not satisfy his outrage that a murderer has gone unpunished. And there is no guarantee that the hunter may not go before the hunted...
...publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and author of Hitler, a massive 1973 biography, drew on film clips of the 1920s, '30s and '40s. Using his book's conclusions as a base, Fest set out to make a movie that would explore how an obscure Austrian postcard artist could win power and put it to such evil purposes. As the newspaper Die Welt noted in its review of the movie, "The incapability of many parents, teachers and publishers to explain the phenomenon of Hitler has [often] been expressed only in general judgments or in total silence...