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Still, readers keep piling up. Each day they buy 140,000 copies of Blick, a quantity that puts it within close reach of Tagesanzeiger (160,000), the country's largest daily. And for all their opposition, some papers are getting the message. Already, Basel's National-Zeitung has copied Blick's combination of big heads and big pictures. Said Jean Chevalier, assistant editor of the French-language Journal de Genéve: "If the Swiss-German press were not so dry and stodgy, Blick would never have come into existence...
Parkinson's Law. Questioning the council's role in the world has not been limited to Orthodoxy. In an article in the current Ecumenical Review, Karl Barth, of Basel, warned that the spirit of renewal seemed to be blowing stronger in Rome than in Geneva these days. Many delegates in Rochester were aware of the need to criticize the gradual "institutionalizing" of the council. In a debate on the latest annual in crease in the council's budget, the Anglican Bishop of Winchester complained that professional ecumenicism seemed to many to be proving Parkinson...
...greatest living Protestant theologian retired from his professorship at the University of Basel last year, presumably with nothing to do but listen to Mozart records and finish the 13th volume of his masterwork, Church Dogmatics. But at the age of 77, Karl Barth (TIME cover, April 20, 1962) has found himself so busy that he wonders if he will ever finish the book at all. Two evenings a week he holds a trilingual "colloquia" with divinity students in the nearby Bruderholz Restaurant. He keeps up a worldwide correspondence, dutifully reads theses mailed in by budding theologians for his approval...
Rare Buyer. More than 20 such fairs are now held yearly, from London and Milan to Basel and Budapest. The fairs have become more a matter of pride than pocketbook for image-conscious European firms, many of which try to exhibit at all of them, fearing that failure to exhibit might start a rumor that a company was in trouble. On such a scale, exhibitions can be very expensive; German companies allot $375 million yearly to fairs, or about half as much as they spend on all advertising. Such smaller companies as porcelain makers or optical works may hope...
...those rare men (less rare in Sweden than elsewhere) who served no country, but the world. He began his career as an international civil servant in the 1920s with the League of Nations, later became chief of the Monetary and Economics department of the Bank of International Settlements in Basel-a post he resigned in 1956 to take over at I.M.F., then a relatively unimportant institution...