Word: geneva
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With a flourish of pens and champagne glasses, delegates of 49 non-Communist nations gathered in Geneva's Palais des Nations last week to sign final agreement to the most sweeping tariff reductions in the history of international trade. The meeting climaxed four years of bargaining, sponsored by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in the oft-troubled but ultimately triumphant Kennedy Round negotiations...
...special agreement on the thorny issue of chemical duties, a plan to provide grain for underdeveloped nations, and a code to curb below-cost "dumping" of products in world markets. Clearly reflected was the fact that there had been plenty of room for economic maneuver even after the weary Geneva negotiators, under firm prodding by GATT's British Director General, Eric Wyndham White, came to a basic agreement seven weeks ago (TIME...
...have to travel very far. The place for the first U.S.-Soviet summit conference in six years was no Yalta or Geneva. Rather, as the wife of New Jersey's Governor put it, it was "Smalltown, U.S.A.," the little (pop. 11,689) college community of Glassboro, 135 miles from Washington, near the Colonial farming settlement and crossroads once known as Long A-Comin...
...Snake House. Häusermann, who grew up in one of Le Corbusier's concrete apartment houses in Geneva ("It leaked, but we loved it"), became fascinated with egg-shaped structures while studying architecture in London, where he came in contact with the stability studies of Structural Engineer Niels Lisborg. Häusermann's first egg-shaped project was for a zoo snake house, which, though never built, won him top architectural grades. In 1960, he actually built his first egg house for his parents. "Father thought the inside might be too small," he recalls, "so we simply...
Covering the Planet. Next came what Häusermann and his French architect wife call their "amusement period." Moving into a 32-room, 10th century castle outside Geneva, he experimented briefly with a flying saucer (it rose two feet off the ground before the propeller tore into a wall) and egg houses in plastic (little marvels that could sell for $1,500 that he calls "the perfect solution for weekends and vacations"). But Häusermann's parents' house proved such a conversation piece locally that he was soon inundated with orders for more, including seven concrete...