Word: styria
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According to his pedigree, the fellow is Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Galicia and Illyria, King of Jerusalem, Duke of Cracow, Lothringen, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Silesia, Modena and Parma. But Otto von Habsburg, 53, son of the last Austro-Hungarian monarch (Karl I), has long since given up building castles in the air. Several times he has renounced his pretensions to the nonexistent thrones, though never with enough conviction to satisfy the Austrian government, which refused him entry into his homeland. Now the government has relented. He may come back from Bavarian exile any time...
Raab picked and groomed his own successor-jovial, Tyrol-born Alfons Gorbach. 62, a longtime People's Party leader in the province of Styria. Contented Austrians hope that their new Chancellor will keep things pretty much the comfortable way Julius Raab left them...
...Austrian side of the Alps was worse hit than the Swiss. Forty-five thousand people in the Austrian provinces of Tyrol, Styria and Salzkammergut were cut off from the outside world. A rumbling avalanche tore down the slopes of Gross-Glockner mountain and swallowed up the resort village of Heiligenblut. Slides killed 14 near the famous health resort of Bad Gastein. To help in rescue work, French occupation commanders placed their entire 4,000-man military force at the disposal of Austrian authorities...
...London dispatch to the New York Times said that Russia would occupy the richest industrial and mineral areas (Lower Austria and the upper part of Styria, including the factory-studded Vienna basin) and the richest agricultural province (Burgenland); the U.S. would get Upper Austria (scenery, orchards, cereals, salt, timber, water power); Britain would occupy Carinthia, the Tyrol, Vorarlberg and the lower part of Styria (Alpine scenery, water power, cattle). Unmentioned were the famed province and city of Salzburg (winter sports, music), which might go to France as a sop to its Big Power ambitions...
...Graz, Styria, Austria, one Johann Fuchs, accused of killing a woman of whose child he was the father, came to trial at 9 a. m. in one of the Austrian emergency courts originally established in 1934 to combat political terrorism, pleaded guilty, was sentenced at 11 a. m., was executed...