Word: liechtensteiner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record, Stanton Griffis, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Spain, was in Paris. Investment Banker Jansen Noyes and Motor Millionaire Walter P. Chrysler Jr. were "out of town." Financier William M. Greve, a man who temporarily gave up his U.S. citizenship in the 1930s, then returned home hurriedly from Liechtenstein just two jumps ahead of Hitler, was keeping his own counsel. One of the departing directors, demanding anonymity, told reporters: "We figured we'd get out while the getting was good." Only Wall Street Investor (Goldman, Sachs) Sidney J. Weinberg, 63, a dollar-a-year man in Washington during World...
When the Wehrmacht began to surrender, the general led the remnants of his outfit to neutral Liechtenstein. The men scattered. Pressured by the Kremlin, the tiny principality ordered the general to leave. With the help of the Russian Orthodox archbishop of Argentina, a friend of Juan Perón, he got permission to take the last of his men to Buenos Aires...
Baby Brain. In Manhattan, Curta Calculator Co. demonstrated a pocket-size calculator, made in Liechtenstein, which looks like a small, black pepper mill, and grinds out answers in much the same way. It can perform some standard calculating operations faster than many electric machines, and unlike most will calculate square roots almost instantaneously. Price...
...rehabilitation, Kessler pointed out, orthopedists can now take advantage of the amputee's familiar "phantom limb" sensation, i.e., after an amputation, patients often "feel" pain in the lost member. Instead of trying to get rid of this sensation, doctors in Vaduz, capital of the postage-stamp principality of Liechtenstein, have been urging patients to cultivate it, e.g., by flexing the muscles in the arm stump, as if opening and closing the hand. Thus the muscle is kept active, and rehabilitation (with an electric hand) can be speeded...
...court in Loerrach, Germany slapped a $140,610 fine on Prince Hans von Liechtenstein, 40, cousin of little Liechtenstein's sovereign, Prince Francis Joseph II, for evading customs. The prince's defense: the luggage he carried belonged to a friend; how was he to know it contained 13,270 Swiss watches...