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...Austrian express train bound from Vienna to Paris got so thoroughly lost in the blizzard that it ended up in Munich. A Yugoslav train reached its destination minus its last five cars; they had blown off en route. Even such southern cities as Marseille and Barcelona were blanketed with snow. Temperatures fell so low in Switzerland that the hardy monks and trusty dogs of St. Bernard retreated to the valley from their Alpine monastery. Ten French villages along the English Channel were isolated for days, and inhabitants ran out of bread, meat and coal. Roads in northern France became literally...
...would give most economists the willies, but it fascinates Fritz Mach-lup (pronounced mock-loop), holder of Princeton's Walker professorship of economics and international finance. A onetime Austrian businessman (in cardboard). Economist Machlup, 60, came to the U.S. in 1933, taught for years at Johns Hopkins, and is now president of the American Association of University Professors...
...Kafka never knew the totalitarian state that his intuition prefigured. But he knew the weight and layers of a hostile environment. He was brought up in the ghetto of the German-speaking Jews of Prague, surrounded by hostile Slavs who, in turn, were under the thumb of the dying Austrian Empire...
Ironically, Rahner at the moment is in no position to assist in this theological task. Last July, despite strenuous objections from his friends in the Austrian and German hierarchies, the Holy Office ordered him to submit all future writings for clearance by his Jesuit superiors in Rome. Since then, Rahner has written no new theological work; friends say that he will not speak out again until the ban is lifted...
...English Tenor Peter Pears and German Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. But Fischer-Dieskau, who was so moved during the Coventry performance that he was barely able to sing some of his lines, had an attack of bronchitis and was forced to cancel in Germany. His part was taken by Austrian Baritone Walter Berry. The audience seemed almost hypnotized from the work's opening lines to Owen's closing "Let us sleep...