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...including a 15-year-old sensation, Jocelyne Périllat, who is being heralded by the French press as the "super champion of tomorrow." The French team is so steeped in talent that nine women and seven men have shared the team's 20 victories. Groans one Austrian skier: "They're ants, those French. You crush one and they have a hundred right behind...
...that no reputations were left to be polished. Not quite true. A case in point is that of Alfred Kubin (1877-1959), some of whose drawings are presently on show at the Serge Sabarsky Gallery in New York. For years, Kubin was regarded as a mere footnote to Austrian Expressionism-a man whose chief importance was vicarious, having influenced the young Paul Klee and provided enough indicative puffs of fantasy with his drawings and book illustrations to qualify him as a "precursor" of Surrealism...
...Kurt Waldheim, 52, former Austrian Foreign Minister. Although he is well liked at the U.N., Waldheim's availability depends in large part on the results of Austria's presidential election in April, in which he is a candidate. It also depends on whether Moscow is convinced that Austria is genuinely neutral or is covertly seeking closer ties to the West...
...affected was Austrian-born Franz Stangl, the former commandant of Poland's Treblinka concentration camp. Found working in a Volkswagen factory in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1967, Stangl was extradited and two weeks ago was convicted by a West German court of sending at least 400,000 Jews to their deaths. Stangl, 62, will probably serve 20 years. If he is still alive after that, he will have to stand trial in Austria on charges of operating a Nazi euthanasia center, where 15,000 mentally and physically crippled people were put to death...
Died. Dr. Paul Schwarzkopf, 84, noted Austrian metallurgist who fled to the U.S. after the 1938 Anschluss and later aided the Allied war effort; in Reutte, Austria. A pioneer in powder metallurgy (a method of producing metal parts without melting the components), Schwarzkopf developed techniques that allowed the U.S. to overcome a shortage of pure iron during World War II and produce millions of parts for field telephones and similar instruments. Among his other discoveries was tungsten carbide, a substance so hard that it has all but displaced diamonds as drill bits...