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...Child of the Muses." Bing's climb began with a prophecy. As a lad in Vienna, he was introduced to the Austrian poet-playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Placing his hand on Rudi's shoulder, the venerable man pronounced: "This is not a little boy but a child of the muses." His teachers found that hard to believe. On his first day at school, Rudi got up from his desk and began putting on his coat. "What are you doing?" the teacher demanded. "Thank you very much," he replied, "but I have had enough." He wasn't kidding...
...recently hid for three days under a truckload of tomatoes bound for Austria. Another rode into Vienna in a refrigerated railway car, where he spent seven days and nights huddled between two sides of beef, nibbling raw meat for nourishment. One Hungarian even ran a stolen train across the Austrian border at 50 m.p.h. But of all the tight spots escapees get themselves into, no one could match the Rumanian contortionist who folded her self up like a lawn chair and slipped across the border under an auto seat...
...York City, Justice Maurice Wahl refused to permit one Robert Paul Jama to add "von" to his last name. In his ruling, Judge Wahl noted that "von" occurred as a prefix in German and Austrian names, "especially of the nobility," and cited Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits the grant of any title of nobility. "I'm a veteran of both World Wars," declared Judge Wahl, "and when this fellow had the nerve to say he wanted a German genealogy because all his friends and acquaintances were German, that was too much...
...American injuries, plus an un accountably bad showing by the Austrian team, turned the world championships into a French snowball. Marielle Goitschel won both the ladies' giant slalom and the women's combined championship. Annie Famose won the ladies' special slalom, and Jean-Claude Killy streaked down the 1.7-mile course at an average speed of 63 m.p.h. to take the men's downhill. Then the "old man" of the French team, 26-year-old Guy Perillat, a shopkeeper from Chamonix who had never won a world title before, beat Killy at his own specialty...
...versed himself in Yiddish and Zionism to confuse Jewish spokesmen. He found the transport to ghettos and crematoriums. Nothing personal, he testified. He came from an ordinary Bible-reading Protestant family, and had had Jewish friends during his Austrian boyhood. In transmitting orders, he never persecuted "individuals"-"it was a matter of a political solution. For this I worked 100 percent...