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...unsmiling guards who gravely check their blank video screens, just for practice. Tomasek Juric, the impassive head of security who was once a bodyguard for Tito, flatly guarantees the safety of everyone who will be here. Even at the trials, his operatives were impressive; when someone among the Austrian downhillers set off a cherry bomb in the lobby of their hotel (standard apres-ski joshing among downhillers, who are considered by other skiers to be mad), the place filled with police instantly. "Ha-ha-ha," went the Austrians. "Ha-ha-[long pause] ha." No further cherry bombs have been detonated...
...Austrian coffee merchant and his Rumanian wife, Bernhard grew up in Brooklyn. A Phi Beta Kappa, he earned a degree in English from Williams College, then got a job writing theater reviews for TIME in 1925. His pay: $10 a week. Hoping to make more money, Bernhard left after a few months and eventually wandered to Wall Street. There he earned $6,000 a year before losing his job during the Depression. He recalls, "I had a couple of weeks there when I was trying to decide whether to jump off a bridge...
...French Revolution, and at 31 he became vice president of the new National Assembly the day before the Bastille was stormed. By trying to give the monarchy a republican patina, however, he earned the enmity of both commoners and nobility. As the Revolution turned bloody, he fled across Austrian lines toward Belgium but was imprisoned. Austria and Prussia considered him a dangerous insurrectionary influence...
...Palestinians, but at the last minute failed to obtain the backing of his own organization and pulled out. In retrospect, some analysts believe that Arafat would have been no worse off had he given Hussein the mandate, even if it might have split his movement. Says former Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, who has long maintained close ties to Arafat: "Because he was so intent on maintaining the unity of the P.L.O., he never stated clearly enough what his real aims were. For every politician there comes a time when he must decide whether to sacrifice a political concept to unity...
Molecular biology, in part, is rooted in the science of genetics. Ever since Cro-Magnon man, parents have probably wondered why their children resemble them. But not until an obscure Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel began planting peas in his monastery's garden in the mid-19th century were the universal laws of heredity worked out. By tallying up the variations in the offspring peas, Mendel determined that traits are passed from generation to generation with mathematical precision in small, separate packets, which became known as genes (from the Greek word for race...