Word: austrian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meanwhile, there were indications last week that Moscow may have decided to rid itself quietly of some well-known dissidents. Austrian officials confirmed that Vienna University had sent Physicist Andrei Sakharov an invitation to serve as a guest professor for a year. Soviet officials hinted that Sakharov, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975 and who has been exiled to Gorky, 230 miles east of Moscow, since January 1980, would be permitted to leave. Sakharov has refused previous invitations to travel outside the country, fearing that he would not be allowed to return. But his wife, Human Rights Activist...
While raising the Austrian standard to unparalleled heights abroad, Kreisky perhaps became a little too careless at home. The Socialists campaigned for the imposition of taxes on vacation and Christmas bonuses and on savings accounts of more than $5,800. Kreisky argued that the proceeds would be used to create jobs. His opponents, however, complained, effectively, that Kreisky was not only bleeding Austrians with such taxes but robbing them with his extravagant spending. Inevitably, the Chancellor's age and health became a major issue. Kreisky is much older than the leaders of other political parties, and for the past...
DIED. Walter Slezak, 80, convivial Austrian-born character of stage and screen who specialized in plump, dastardly villains, but also played sentimental men-about-Europe, most notably the Marseille shopkeeper in Broadway's Fanny (1954), for which he won a Tony Award; by his own hand (he shot himself); in Flower Hill, N.Y. His most memorable film role was that of the deceitful U-boat captain in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944), but he may be better known today as Ronald Reagan's co-star-with a chimp-in the 1951 Bedtime for Bonzo...
...embassy basement and later took over the barbershop next door. Last week, after nearly five years in their refuge, the Siberian Seven, as they have become known, finally moved a little closer to freedom when Soviet authorities allowed one of them, Lidiya Vashchenko, 32, to board an Austrian Airlines flight to Vienna...
...with a master chef and a winemaker, a "gathering" sequence in which Julia seeks out her raw materials at their source, be it a crab boat or cheesemaker, and shots of the actual cocktail party and dinner. On one of the first shows, Julia visits a chicken farm, and Austrian-born Chef Wolfgang Puck of West Hollywood's famed Spago continental restaurant concocts a dish called Chicken Winged Victory. On another, Executive Chef Louis Evans of New Orleans' Pontchartrain Hotel prepares crayfish bisque with live crustaceans from home...