Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spinal disk ailment. Though she stoically plans to complete her current Covent Garden contract and the spring season at La Scala in a steel-ribbed corset, the strapping, handsome Australian will have to abandon a scheduled summer tour of her native land to undergo medical treatment in her Swiss villa. "Only when that is finished," said she, "can I make any decision about my future engagements. But I certainly have no intention of announcing my retirement...
Died. Auguste Piccard, 78, white-maned Swiss explorer-scientist who in the Jules Verne manner broke both the world altitude and depth records aboard his own inventions; of a heart attack; in Lausanne, Switzerland (see SCIENCE...
...Paris in 1956, because he no longer felt safe in Algeria. In France, the government sometimes used Fares for secret approaches to the F.L.N. Last November, however, Fares was arrested by the French and charged with being the F.L.N.'s "banker," who had helped transfer rebel funds to Swiss banks; reportedly he handled $1,000,000 a month. Released last week from Fresnes prison near Paris, he will be able to work for what has always been his passionate ambition: "The conciliation of the French and Algerian points of view...
Leet has no political axe to grind. "I was naive enough to believe that science was objective in anyone's hands, but that Vela data was as full of holes as Swiss cheese. Three months ago I wasn't aware that it would be carried over and used at Geneva. How the hell can a thing like this go on? When I found out I was mad enough to do some digging." The Professor, who was born in Alliance, Ohio, sixty-one years ago, has a ready laugh still untainted by cynicism. He knows it seems quixotic for a lone...
...pounded by a national shortage of skilled manpower. To some critics, the situation cries out for a "national curriculum" to equalize schools. Loud among them is Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who calls local control "the greatest obstacle to school reform." Says Rickover in a tendentiously titled new book, Swiss Schools and Ours: Why Theirs Are Better (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95): "I know of no country that has brought off successfully a really thorough reform of the school system without making use of some na tional standard that sets scholastic objectives." Rickover's idea is anathema to those who feel...