Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washbasin Roof. By the age of 30, when Jeanneret was ready to leave La Chaux-de-Fonds for good ("The Swiss are cleanly and industrious and to hell with them"), he had put up a couple of chalets, an exotic dwelling of screaming yellows called the Turkish Villa, and a movie house with a bare concrete facade trimmed with blue mosaics. When the municipal authorities complained that his Turkish Villa did not go with its site, young Jeanneret retorted: "It is the setting that does not go with my house." In his chalets he scornfully abandoned the traditional Swiss peaked...
...celebrated Swiss architect took two and a half hours Saturday night to compare irrational symbolism in pre-historic art to that of "Finnegan's Wake," and then to call on his profession "to throw out the straight-line logic of playboy architecture" in favor of a revived symbolism which would satisfy man's psychic needs...
...that a rebel flare-up in Oriente province was "fed ideologically, economically and militarily" by the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo. The U.S., in turn, charged that Havana had maltreated 22 imprisoned Americans by failing not only to provide "needed foods and medicines," but by preventing the neutral Swiss from helping the prisoners...
...Coca-Cola bottling plant. He has a stake in the Institute Nacional de Industria, the state-owned agency for industrial development that controls and invests in private industry with state capital. Outside Spain, he controls weblike holding companies in London and New York, has a 25% interest in the Swiss international banking firm, Societe de Banque Suisse. "I have no need of banks," March has bragged. "The bankers need...
WINE WAR between California's Gallo (Thunderbird, Gallo wines) and United Vintners (Petri, Italian Swiss Colony) is being fought with heavy ad barrages and price slashes. The fight started in Chicago, soon spread to other markets (latest: Texas...