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...with a license from Hughes Aircraft Co., plans to produce more than 1 million digital watches this year. Before the end of 1976, S.S.I.H. will produce digital watches in the $15-$30 range. Meanwhile, the Swiss are applying their considerable know-how to improving electronic technology. At the Basel Fair last weekend, two manufacturers showed off the world's first electronic watches that do not require a battery...
...Prime Minister was referring, of course, to Britain's continuing desperate economic woes. The usually circumspect Bank for International Settlements, a Basel-based central bank for central banks, issued a blunt report that faulted British authorities for their "not very successful" attempt to cope "with a situation deteriorating on several fronts at once." The infectious gloom of the Basel moneymen spread to the London stockmarket, killing any hopes for an upsurge in the wake of the pro-Market landslide. The day after the B.I.S. report was issued, there was a rush of Arab petrodollars out of London...
...While living in the Tuscany region in 1964-65, Hughes learned firsthand the wanton nature of art thieves when they made off with the head of a statue of St. Paul in a church he often visited. Hughes traced the head as far as a "respectable" art dealer in Basel, Switzerland, but it was never returned to the church. Such theft, in his view, is an outgrowth of "the stupendous hyping of art as a blue-chip investment." Not only has promotion made art a prime target for razor-wielding burglars, Hughes argues: "It has also made it impossible...
...caused himself to be nailed through the hands to the roof of a Volkswagen while, in his words, "screaming for me, the engine was run at full speed for two minutes." He has strewn broken glass on a street in Los Angeles and crawled naked through it; at the Basel Art Fair last year (a feast day, on which many priests and their temple dancers gather to exchange the images peculiar to their cult), he had himself kicked down two flights of concrete stairs in front of an admiring throng. He has been shot, though only...
...idea for the book came from Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt, 38, a German psychologist and director of a school near Basel, Switzerland, that teaches parents how to deal with children. While preparing a paper on early sexual development, Fleischhauer-Hardt decided that the many books meant to instruct children about sex were inadequate...