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...Montreux Houston...
Germany alone has some 24. Montreux, Europe's Newport, is expected to draw over 80,000 people this year...
...sign of hope. Meeting each other in Washington's Blair House before the NATO summit, Ecevit and Caramanlis agreed to pursue next month a "dialogue" concerning their differences. The rendezvous will continue an initiative launched in March, when the two heads of government met for the first time, in Montreux, Switzerland. A meeting that had been scheduled for April fell apart when the Carter Administration declared its support for lifting the arms embargo against Turkey. While the chasm between Ecevit and Caramanlis remains wide, it is heartening that they are once again willing to speak across...
...Russia and educated in England, where I studied French literature before spending 15 years in Germany." His life was, in fact, a spiral of migrations, and his passport was his art. When he died last week at 78, of a viral infection, at a hospital near his home in Montreux, Switzerland, that art was widely considered to include some of the best novels of the 20th century. There are three masterpieces: The Gift, written in Russian and first published in 1936, Lolita (1955), and Pale Fire (1962). In addition to 14 other novels, hundreds of poems, dozens of short stories...
...Montreux Palace hotel, where he and his wife Vera occupied apartments for the past 18 years, Nabokov wrote, composed chess problems and pondered the secrets of entomology -often while seated on garden benches. Out of his deep knowledge of language and literature, he designed a fictive looking-glass world whose seriousness was lightened by ingenious wordplay and metaphors. He was a sturdy, athletic figure who in summer could be seen chasing butterflies in Alpine meadows...