Word: raab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only man who ever talked the Russians into letting go of some real estate is portly Julius Raab, 69, Chancellor of Austria for the past eight years. He is the architect of Austria's prosperous neutrality, and, in fact, of its postwar independence. Last week, ailing with diabetes and the aftereffects of a 1957 stroke, Julius Raab decided the time had come to retire...
Back in 1953, when it still looked as if the Russians were going to occupy their zone of partitioned Austria forever, grassroots Politician Julius Raab in a friendly but firm way ousted his People's Party colleague, Leopold Figl, from the chancellorship. And although pro-Western Figl was kept on as Foreign Minister, Austria's relations with the Western powers were judiciously permitted to deteriorate until Raab, hat humbly in hand, could travel to Moscow as something of a neutral. On that trip in 1955, he took with him a delicate proposal: an offer of Austrian neutrality...
...reasons that he admits are not yet clear, Dr. Raab believes that lack of steady physical exercise, even by itself, may encourage the stimulatory system to work overtime. Alone, this might not do much harm. But it is most likely to be combined with other factors that are known to damage the heart: pro longed emotional stress, high blood pres sure, coronary atherosclerosis and a high-fat diet...
...hours' exercise on an occasional weekend will not suffice. "To maintain . . . equilibrium in heart metabolism,' Dr. Raab says, "one has to earn it day by day and year by year . . . Our Western so-called 'normal' hearts . . . are in reality pathetic artifacts, insidiously degenerating products of supercivilized soft living...
...partial remedy for much heart disease, and the preventive for many premature deaths, Dr. Raab believes, is to be seen in thousands of Russian kurorty, where workers go for intensive physical training and reconditioning. West Germany has followed suit, with a dozen year-round centers for elderly and sedentary men. Will U.S. men voluntarily hit the shoe-leather trail? Dr. Raab doubts it and fears legislation may be needed to compel them...