Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laborious, but we advance," was the word sent to Charles de Gaulle last week by his top negotiator, Louis Joxe, Minister for Algerian Affairs. In a secret meeting place near the Swiss border, Joxe's French delegation and that of the Moslem F.L.N., headed by Foreign Minister Belkacem Krim, were in the "final stage" of drawing up the cease-fire agreement that will end the seven-year Algerian war. There have been reports of an impending truce for months, but this time it seemed so close that one of the few remaining points at issue reportedly was De Gaulle...
...accompanying the aging (37) boy author on a fact-finding and mood-gathering trip to Garden City, Kans.-the scene of the Clutter murder case (TIME, Nov. 30, 1959), on which Capote's next book will be based-Miss Lee packed her childhood pal back off to his Swiss writing retreat, having certified his first 200 longhand pages as "magnificent...
...past five of them. Bram van Velde has been penniless and unknown, a man so much alone that he has almost lost the gift of speech. Seemingly too late to give him any satisfaction, he is now becoming famous and solvent. He has had enormously successful shows in Swiss and Dutch museums. At his big retrospective at the influential Galerie Knoedler in Paris last fall, some of his paintings fetched prices up to $18,000. This week a similar show opens at Knoedler's in Manhattan...
...villa overlooking Lake Neuchâtel, with Mont Blanc gleaming like a picture postcard in the background, a sedentary, stout Swiss just turned 41 lives contentedly with his wife, three children, and a collection of dogs and cats, and turns out some of the most wry and bitter writing of this wry and bitter time. Friedrich Duerrenmatt is best known for his unsettling play The Visit, in which a vengeful old lady manipulates the greed of a whole town to make its respectable citizens collaborate in the ritual murder of her former lover. In The Deadly Game, a traveling salesman...
Freedom Is Crime. The hero, Hans Barlach, is a retired Swiss police commissioner, convalescing from an operation for cancer. He comes to suspect that a notorious doctor who performed experimental operations without anesthetic in Nazi concentration camps may be the same surgeon who is running a swank sanitarium near Zurich. Barlach commits himself to the sanitarium in the hope of exposing the evil M.D., but finds himself trapped and helpless in Dr. Emmenberger's grisly suite of torture chambers...