Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radio Nord is only the latest radio pirate to steal onto the airways. The Swiss-owned Radio Mercur began broadcasting to Danish listeners from a freighter off Copenhagen three years ago, now takes in some $700,000 annually, boasts some 300,000 listeners, recently expanded to a bigger, better ship. A year ago, Radio Veronika began pirate broadcasts into Holland from an old German lightship, is still going strong, even tried an abortive beaming into England (they stopped because Dutch listeners complained, wanted all the programs in Dutch...
...music-Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra-that conveyed his emotions far more cogently than any words. That was in 1907. For reasons unknown. Violinist Geyer never played the work publicly, and at her death in 1957, twelve years after Bartok died, she left the manuscript to Swiss Conductor Paul Sacher. who performed it in Switzerland in 1958. Last week Violinist Isaac Stern, playing in Carnegie Hall with the Philadelphia Orchestra, introduced Bartok's long-lost concerto to New York concertgoers...
...chosen mainly because its grounds can be easily closed off by the 1,000 French security police assigned to protect the delegations. The hotel faces the excursion dock in case the F.L.N. representatives-who refused to be quartered on French soil-wish to commute by boat from their Swiss hotels across the lake...
This unflattering estimate is the basis of Drew's weekly Drew Odd Lot Studies, which analyze the small investor's "mistakes" as a key to market trends. Drew's report is bought-at $95 a year-by some 4,500 professional investors, including Swiss banks, the executives of top U.S. banks and corporations (General Motors, CBS, Alcoa), and investment funds...
...transitory state, enhances the characters' sense of the wonder of life, and gives a love affair the tang of teary urgency. Lillian and Clerfayte, the leading characters of his latest novel, have that kind of tangy affair. Lillian is a 24-year-old tuberculous patient in a Swiss Alpine sani-torium, and her X rays give her a possible year to live; Clerfayte is a middle-aging (40) racing driver with an addiction to danger and drink...