Word: vorarlberg
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...Bloomsbury talk." But the narrator's main concern is love, and the way in which it has come to six women of her acquaintance. The backgrounds range from bomb-flattened Warsaw to fat and peaceful Stockholm, from English country houses to the ski slopes of Austria's Vorarlberg. The people are nearly as cosmopolitan as Author Zilliacus herself (she has Swedish, Polish, Finnish and American blood), and their luck is uniformly bad. Placid Maria is forced into marriage with a Russian count; lovely Lisa's husband dies in the war; reckless Clarissa gets pregnant by a social...
...valleys of Austria's Vorarlberg Province, the toll was the worst in memory: 113 dead. The village of Blons alone was buried under two avalanches, one of them 90 ft. deep. "It looked." said an observer, "as though it had been hit with an Almighty fist." Swiss and U.S. Air Force helicopters flew in to Blons and the other hamlets to help the skiborne rescue workers. To rescue two villagers, Captain Billy Sayers of Lubbock, Texas maneuvered a ten-passenger whirlybird into a 30-ft. square stamped out on a Blons hillside by the boots of a rescue party...
...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...
...beginning of last week Franz Hofer, Nazi leader for the Tyrol and Vorarlberg, was a political prisoner in Innsbruck jail. One midnight two men in the grey .Norfolk jackets of the anti-Nazi Heimwehr drove up to the jail with a prisoner handcuffed between them...
Died. Dr. Jodok Fink, 76, of Andelsbuch, Vorarlberg, former vice-Chancellor of Austria (1920-22), potent member of the Christian Socialist Party; in Andelsbuch...
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