Word: tyrolean
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...miscalculation sent a sled careening wildly off course; scores of bobbers have been injured, and two have been killed. For the 1964 Olympics, an Austrian engineer named Paul Aste, 46, a onetime bobber himself, designed a narrower, 13-curve run in the Alpine resort of Igls, just above the Tyrolean capital of Innsbruck. Aste thought it might be a trifle slower than the slick Lake Placid chute, but far safer. He miscalculated on both counts...
...hardly dry before Tyrolean extremists found cause for grousing. The Italians merged South Tyrol with Italian-speaking Trento province, creating a new, bigger "autonomous" Alto Adige province in which the Italians outnumbered the German-speaking citizens 2 to 1. The Tyroleans claimed Italians were given all the important government administrative jobs; German was neglected in the public schools and no longer recognized as an official language. Last year Austria took the Tyroleans' claims to the U.N., which directed Austria and Italy to get together and settle the problem. Two tries earlier this year failed, but in preparation...
...Italian government declared a state of emergency in Alto Adige, ordered everyone to turn in all private arms, including even hunting rifles. Responsible Tyrolean leaders disavowed any part in the violence, condemned the terrorists, and few Tyroleans showed any great interest in the German-language pamphlets that invariably appeared in the wake of the bombing urging "support for the fight for liberation." Looking for a ray of hope, the daily Il Popolo sensibly noted: "The terrorists' acts may result in isolating the extremists themselves...
...business, Edgar Kaiser does not let his private life get into a mold. He wears rakish Tyrolean hats, likes to drive at high speeds, operate his motor boat in the roughest seas, set off powerful firecrackers (one of which ruptured his eardrum). He often buys clothes for his wife, personally outfitted the entire wedding party of one of his three daughters, all married (he also has three sons, Edgar Jr., 17, Henry, 15, and Kim, 11, in Eastern prep schools). Whether Edgar and his wife are ensconced in their six-bedroom, Spanish-style home in Lafayette, Calif, or speeding around...
Last week, when Italy refused to allow two Austrian nationalists to enter the disputed region to help the German-speaking population celebrate the150th anniversary of a Tyrolean uprising against Napoleon, Austria called home its ambassador to Rome. Viennese newspapers said he had been "insulted" by being forced to cool his heels in an anteroom of the Italian Foreign Office. White-stockinged Tyroleans from the Austrian side, who look so gay in the travel posters, staged a grim memorial service outside Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral...