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...process takes its name from the initial letters of Linz and Donawitz, two picture-postcard Austrian towns where the technique was first developed ten years ago. At the government-owned Voest steelworks along the Danube at Linz, scientists soon after World War II began seeking a way to make steel with less scrap-of which Austria has little. Joined by experts from another nationalized steel company, the Alpine Montan works of Donawitz, they derived the LD process from the principle, discovered a century ago by Sir Henry Bessemer, that pure oxygen speeds the cooking of iron, coke and limestone into...
...Vienna premiere of Benjamin Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream in the city's renowned Staatsoper, the Austrian government bestowed its highest musical tribute on the Connecticut-born beauty singing the leading role of Titania. She was Soprano Teresa Stich-Randall, 34, who for the past ten years has made Vienna home base and last year took her first bows at the Met. Her new title: Kammersängerin (chamber singer), the first time an American-born artist has ever received the award...
...Pollak Lectures were established in 1954 by a gift of Leo Silver, in honor on the Austrian-born journalist...
...Austrian Empire's Maria Theresa thaler-known to Arabs simply as "the Fat Lady." First minted in 1751, Maria Theresa thalers (pronounced tah-ler) were carried to the Middle East by Austrian traders...
...thalers are still in circulation, but at least 320 million have been minted, and the minting is still going on-but with a difference. Under prodding from Austria, the British fortnight ago promised to stop coining thalers, thus leaving the Vienna mint as the sole source. The move delighted Austrian bankers, who sell new thalers for $1.04 apiece and make an 8? profit on each one. To the bankers' even greater delight, the Vienna mint hopes to increase its output of Fat Ladies from about 1,000,000 this year...