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...free, open bar in first and business class, where some of the nastiest episodes occur. The booze is supposed to keep customers calm but may be having the opposite effect on some. Others say being deprived of a different vice, cigarettes, is a major cause of unruliness. No wonder Austrian Airlines has said it will offer nicotine-substitute inhalers to passengers once a soon-to-come smoking ban takes effect. Then there are those who blame the airlines themselves. Says Hal Salfen, of the International Airline Passengers Association: "Flights are full, there are fewer flight attendants, and there...
...novel opens about two generations before the Holocaust in the Austrian village of Neufeld. There, a young civil servant named Karl has just converted from Judaism to Christianity, thereby following in the footsteps of almost all of the Jews in the city. His reasoning is that he wishes to be promoted to municipal secretary, a position he has been working toward for 17 years but also a position which his faith has prevented him from achieving. Christian sentiment, however, scorns the newly converted as Jewish at the core in spite of any baptism ceremony they may have undergone. Karl, while...
...Austrian immigrant Bluhdorn took a run-down Michigan auto-parts distributor and built it into Gulf & Western Industries, a $2 billion marvel whose activities ranged from mining (New Jersey Zinc) to movies (Paramount Studios). By 1969, the former $15-a-week clerk was worth $50 million...
...archives to public scrutiny as people are becoming more willing to speak out, the conference provides new hope for some sort of final accounting. At the very least, the meeting ended on an encouraging note: The Russian delegation delivered three documents that could provide leads on art stolen from Austrian Jews...
...Crimson caught up with Leyner in the posh lobby of The Copley Plaza Hotel, where chain smoking Austrian conventioneers and jack-booted bellboys lent a surreal atmosphere of their...