Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adventure for city children who think eggs grow in cartons. More than 4,000 farmhouses offer bed, breakfast and participation in farm life, all for between $5 and $8 a day. Village pubs serve solid, inexpensive fare, but some farmhouses allow guests to cook simple meals. The light white Austrian wine goes for $2 a two-liter bottle...
...Austrian curiosity is the 800-year-old Geras Monastery, which offers a wide variety of art courses from icon painting to, yes, nude studies. One-week courses cost between $80 and $100; a double room with shower and breakfast, $18 a night...
...year after changing its name from Michigan Plating & Stamping Co. It was best known for producing rear bumpers for Studebakers. The report listed sales of $15.4 million, profits of $316,000 and a work force of about 600. The firm that year had a new chairman, a young Austrian immigrant named Charles G. Bluhdorn, who launched the company on an aggressive expansionist course. Today, under Bluhdorn's direction, G&W ranks 59th on the FORTUNE 500 list, with 1978 sales of $4.3 billion, earnings of $181 million, and more than 100,000 employees. Through its subsidiaries, the New York...
DIED. Otto Kallir, 84, Austrian-born art dealer who introduced and promoted the famed American primitive painter known as Grandma Moses; in New York City. A Viennese art merchant who fled his country after the Nazi invasion, Kallir opened a gallery in New York in 1939 specializing in German and Austrian expressionism. He became best known, however, for presenting the works of Anna Mary Robertson Moses, the Hoosick Falls, N.Y., resident who did not start painting seriously until age 76. "I may be prejudiced," Kallir once said of his client, who died at age 101 in 1961, "but . . . history will...
...Lasker Foundation awarded two other 1978 prizes, each also worth $15,000. The Clinical Medical Research Award was shared by three scientists: Dr. Robert Austrian of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, for developing a vaccine that could prevent three quarters of the nation's estimated 750,000 annual cases of pneumococcal pneumonia; Dr. Emil Gotschlich of Manhattan's Rockefeller University, who developed a vaccine that is 90% effective against meningococcal meningitis; and Dr. Michael Heidelberger of New York University, for research that helped produce both vaccines...