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ACROSS broad conference tables in Helsinki and Vienna, U.S. and Soviet negotiators have faced each other 68 times since the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks began 18 months ago. Last week the two sides permitted themselves a change of scene. As guests of the Austrian government, 146 delegates and wives set out from Vienna for a spring weekend in the historic province of Carinthia aboard a special train complete with private compartments, dining cars and a dance band...
Quick Profit. At week's end, a partial answer began to emerge: the dollar will be worth fewer Deutsche marks, and quite likely fewer Dutch guilders, Austrian schillings and Swiss and Belgian francs. At a tense, day-long meeting in Brussels on Saturday, the finance ministers of the six European Common Market nations reluctantly reached a compromise. They authorized member nations to let their currencies "float" -rise or fall in price, depending on supply and demand-within certain limits above or below their stated dollar value. It seemed almost certain that they would promptly rise. This week the West...
American Optical, through its Austrian subsidiary, has sold medical research microscopes to China. Overseas branches of Monsanto have shipped a variety of chemicals, including materials for aspirin and rubber. The subsidiaries are forbidden by the U.S. Government to sell any of 600 "strategic items," but the embargo list leaves plenty of room for trade. General Motors, for example, sold $682,000 worth of diesel engines and spare parts in 1970 to Roberto Perlini Co., an Italian truck manufacturer, who sent them to China along with 80 Perlini trucks...
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 subsequently became known as genes (from the Greek word for race...
...Austrian officials, fearful that the French team's success will deflate Austria's winter tourist trade, are groaning even louder. Last month, in fact, Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky called an emergency meeting in Kitzbühel to decide how to stop the French. The only sure way is to kidnap French Ski Director Jean Béranger. Women's team coach for nine years before succeeding Honoré Bonnet as head coach this season, Béranger is no stickler for style. He believes in "doing things empirically. A skier's morphology, his character, his personality...