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Married. Archduke Rudolph, 34, Swiss-born youngest son of the late exiled Habsburg Emperor Charles I of Austria (1887-1922) and Wall Street junior executive; and Xenia Czernichev-Besobrasov, 24, Smith-educated daughter of an exiled czarist count; in Tuxedo Park...
...Swiss-born druggist and a Guatemalan mother, Arbenz, now 39, is a dry, dogmatic professional officer who taught at the national military academy before he joined the army junta that fought and won the revolution. He took office with relatively little political experience and a few burning obsessions: ardent nationalism, a conviction that the country's worst problems can be solved by drastic land reforms, a deep-seated hatred of "foreign monopolies," i.e., United Fruit Co. and other U.S.-owned firms operating in Guatemala. No Communist himself, he nevertheless accepted the Communists around him at their face value...
...scientists, the biggest trouble is that the arctic is a poor laboratory. The very mechanics of existence are too tough to leave time or energy for experiment. So the Army took over the empty laundry in Wilmette. Directed by Swiss-born Henri Bader, snow-and-avalanche specialist, the Army Corps of Engineers turned the three-story building into SIPRE (Snow, Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment...
...Remedy. Swiss-born Jacob Schweppe first began making soda water in his Bristol chemist's shop in 1794. Quinine water, which Schweppes concocted in the 1860s, so appealed to British taste that by 1903 Schweppes had factories all over the empire. World War II cut off sugar supplies and stopped production; when the factories started up again in 1948, sugar rationing kept sales flat...
...Swiss-born Edwin Fischer has built his reputation as an exponent of the classics. For him, The Well-Tempered Clavier of Bach, which he recorded years ago, is the "Old Testament," and Beethoven's sonatas are the "New Testament." He is also at his best with the music of Mozart, which he plays on a grander scale than that favored by the tinkly music-box school of Mozart interpreters. Composers such as Chopin seem to elude Fischer, but when he sticks to Bach and Mozart, few pianists anywhere can match him. Wrote a Paris-Presse critic last year: "After...