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Died. Jochen Rindt, 28, Austrian auto racer, who very probably will become the first man ever to win the Grand Prix world championship posthumously; when his Lotus-Ford crashed at 185 m.p.h. at Monza, Italy, while preparing for a Grand Prix race next day. A professional racer since he was 19, Rindt worked through all the classes from Fiat saloons to Ferrari sports cars, in which he captured (with Masten Gregory) the classic 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1965. Last year he took over as top driver for Lotus and roared off to victory this season in the Monaco...
Died. Dr. Hermann Knaus, 77, Austrian gynecologist and a developer of the rhythm method of birth control; of cancer of the spleen; in Graz, Austria. Knaus's discovery in the late '20s that the nonfertile periods between ovulation and menstruation may be calculated led to widespread use of the rhythm method; it is still the only form of birth control officially sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church. A Catholic himself, Knaus vehemently opposed use of the Pill, which he called "hormonal rape of the body...
Richer by Degas. On East 76th Street, just a block from Collectors Edgar and Bernice Garbisch, is the six-story town house of Austrian-born Sam Salz, at 76 the dean of New York's private dealers. At the moment Salz is in Europe on a scouting and buying trip, a journey he makes two or three times each year. But during the season, the visitor who rings the plain, unmarked bell is let in by a deferential porter in livery and escorted past a larger than life-sized Maillol nude in terracotta and a 14th century A.D. wooden...
...born to U.S. Soprano Olive Moorefield of Vienna's Volksoper and her husband, Dr. Kurt Mach. "Love and congratulations," Bernstein wired, "for Oliver Kurt Fidelio." The parents were delighted and added Fidelio to the boy's name. "Think of the poor baby's fate," mused an Austrian TV commentator, "if Lenny had conducted Die Meistersinger von Nੜrnberg that evening...
...swaggering, Austrian-born SS Hauptsturmführer (captain), Stangl was captured by American troops in 1945 and turned over to Austrian authorities for trial. He escaped in 1947, made his way to Syria and finally, in 1951, to Brazil. By that time, he had attained most-wanted status in the records of the Jewish Documentation Center, a Vienna-based organization headed by Simon Wiesenthal and dedicated to tracking down Nazi war criminals. In 1967, Stangl was finally extradited. "If I had done nothing else except catch this man," said Wiesenthal, who was in the Düsseldorf courtroom last week...