Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...credit tight. The A.F.L.-C.l.O.'s George Meany called him "a national disaster" because of his "inhuman" insensitivity to unemployment. Actually, Burns has carried a lifelong feeling for the plight of the jobless. This is partly the result of his own experience as a pre-World War I Austrian immigrant to Bayonne, N.J., where at the age of ten he knocked on doors to help his father find work. He once proposed a national jobs program that would cast the Government as the employer of last resort. If he gave first priority to fighting inflation, it was because...
...more than 50 committed terrorists-abetted by perhaps 2,000 active sympathizers-in a population of more than 61 million. Despite the massive, nationwide man hunt for the killers of kidnaped Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, the terrorists have not yet given up or gone underground. Last week Austrian police disclosed that members of the Red Army Faction were responsible for the kidnaping in November of Viennese Millionaire Walter Palmers. He was released unharmed after his family paid a $2 million ransom, but the German Red Army members who engineered Palmers' abduction once again made good their escape. One Austrian...
...more than a century, Austrian citizens have dutifully doffed their hats to Post-und Fernmeldezentralinspektoren, bowed and scraped before the lofty Regierungsveterinärkommissäre and contorted their tongues addressing Werkstättenobermanipulanten. The bearers of these grandiloquent honorifics, which date back to the Habsburg dynasty, are actually low-ranking civil servants employed in the somewhat less than regal jobs of postal inspector, livestock inspector and repairman...
Starting Jan. 1, however, the government of Socialist Chancellor Bruno Kreisky will abolish 502 of the splendid titles bestowed upon civil servants under the Austro-Hungarian Empire and, until now, faithfully preserved by two Austrian republics. A mere 108 titles will remain in official use. Many of these will be simplified in an attempt to humanize and democratize relations between Austria's 7.5 million citizens and its 345,000 federal bureaucrats, who are notorious for their sloth and discourtesy...
...government has stopped short at downgrading its diplomats, however; Austrian envoys will be permitted to insist that their colleagues abroad continue to use the traditional form of address: Ausserordentlicher und Bevöllmächtigter Botschafter, or Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary...