Word: vorarlberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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