Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...watched Honored Guest Gagarin arrive in a sudden rain squall for the July 26 celebration. They were then escorted to the terminal hotel, where their room keyholes were stuffed with paper so they could not lock the doors. Armed guards stood in the halls, telephone calls were banned, a Swiss embassy representative was turned away. But no one was harmed, and next day the Americans were permitted to return to Miami in a regularly scheduled Pan American DC-6. Now their luggage included cartons of Cuban rum emblazoned: "Let's go to Cuba-the friendly island next door...
Riding Shotgun. The U.S. State Department asked the Swiss embassy in Havana to protest Castro's refusal to release the big plane, but got no answer. The FBI charged the out-of-reach Oquendo with four offenses, including kidnaping-punishable by life imprisonment. New York police revealed a Cuban plot to hijack five more planes. Detectives studied passenger lists at air terminals, kept a sharp eye on boarding Latin Americans. Kentucky's Representative Frank Chelf introduced a bill to permit civilian crews to "ride shotgun" in airliner cockpits equipped with one-way glass to observe passengers. FAA Administrator...
...bright, modern auditorium was packed to the last seat with notables and students-Swiss and Germans, Americans and Japanese-and the air was electric with expectancy. About to make his farewell lecture last week was Basel University's professor Karl Earth, at 74 the Grand Panjandrum of Protestant theologians, whose multivolume work-in-progress, Kirchliche Dogmatik, may well ride out the centuries as a theological landmark, whose post-World War I sermons on Paul's letters to the Romans lit a cannon cracker under Europe's bourgeoisie, whose resounding no to Hitler stiffened intellectual resistance to Naziism...
...working like a Swiss watch right now." That, last week, was the judgment of a top member of the team that developed the Navy's navigation satellite Transit IVA. Following three earlier Transits that suffered from minor but decisive bugs (e.g., a burst battery), Transit IVA, launched last fortnight, is doing its electronic job better than anyone had hoped. Though planned as an experimental model, it will become a regular part of the navigation-satellite system if it continues to work well...
...missile-crossed lovers, are cuddly as puppies. Writer-Director Ustinov gives himself the best lines and delivers them with practiced waggery. When the town-hall clock goes out of order, he laments that "our national tragedy is that we have been occupied by every nation except the Swiss...