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Died. Mark Donohue, 38, top-ranking American driver; following brain surgery after a crash while he was practicing for the Austrian Grand Prix; in Graz, Austria. Son of a New Jersey attorney, Donohue studied mechanical engineering at Brown University but began racing professionally in 1966, and quickly built a reputation as a cool, pleasant, almost error-free technician. After winning several major events-including the Indianapolis 500 in 1972-and more than $1 million in purses, he quit driving briefly in 1974, then slipped into the slim cockpit of a Formula One car this year in pursuit...
...tournament is being played in Graz, Austria...
...McManama and Dave Hynes have hung up their Harvard jerseys for good, but they continue to play superb hockey, now clad in the red, white and blue of the United States team in the Group B World Hockey Tournament in Graz, Austria...
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...
...Graz, Austria...