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Hiebeler carefully recruited three crack climbers for his party: a tough Bavarian carpenter named Anton Kinshofer, 27; a pink-cheeked Bavarian sawmill hand named Andreas Mannhardt, 22; and an Austrian named Walter Almberger, 28, who worked in an iron mine 1.600 ft. below the earth's surface. For quick energy, the methodical Hiebeler got an Austrian jam factory to devise a special marmalade packed with calories and vitamins. He designed boots armored with three layers of outer leather; he bought special plastic helmets and tough, extra-thin ropes. Keeping their plans a tight secret, the men practiced all winter...
Among scientific apiarists. Austrian-born Dr. Karl von Frisch of the University of Munich is widely icgarded as the know-all of the bee-alls. More than 20 years ago. Von Frisch discovered that bees communicate in a highly complex code by dancing on the honeycomb. A decade...
...Evil. The U.N. forces on the spot seemed paralyzed, even speechless. There were 300 Ghanaian troops, 55 Austrian hospital specialists and a company of Pakistani transport men in Bakwanga the day Kalonji brought his victims to town for their public beating; apparently they stood by helplessly, did not even report the incident to Leopoldville headquarters of U.N. Congo Chief Rajeshwar Dayal until four days later. Eleven hundred U.N. Ethiopian soldiers were in the area when Gizenga executed his 15 enemies; either they knew nothing of the killings or did nothing to stop them...
Both her athletic bent and her theatrical temperament combine to make Swiss-Austrian Soprano Borkh one of the world's most impressive performers in two of her favorite roles-Salome and Elektra. Last week, for the first time in nine years, Strauss's Elektra returned to the Metropolitan Opera, and Soprano Borkh all but blew the house down...
...same concept was used for the new "Concentration Camp Memorial" in Yugoslavia, located just across the Austrian frontier...