Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hero is a cool, professional police inspector (Heinz Ruhmann) assigned to investigate the razor murder of an eight-year-old girl in the woods near a small Swiss town. When he breaks the news to her parents, he promises them, in a moment of rare emotional commitment, to bring the murderer to justice. Under pressure from the police, a peddler confesses to the crime, then hangs himself in his cell. But even though the case is officially closed, the inspector is not satisfied. Haunted by the memory of the butchered child and impelled, by his pledge to her parents...
...little of the buying this time; the prices were too high. Beginning with private buyers and investors who wanted to convert their paper currencies to gold, the market soon surrendered to speculators who saw the chance of making a fast killing. Much of the buying was triggered by Swiss bankers, who have been recommending a switch from dollars and other paper currencies to gold. The Swiss angrily denied that they were responsible for the gold rush, said the buying was chiefly for their foreign clients. A large block of buying also came from the U.S. itself, where a number...
...selling enough gold to fatten the thin market, since transactions in London amounted to only $25 million daily. But that would have meant purchasing gold from the U.S. Treasury to cover the sales, and thus worsening the U.S. gold outflow -a step the U.S. did not encourage. Some Swiss bankers criticized the U.S. Treasury for lacking the courage to stop the price rise, felt that Treasury could have saved the situation quickly by the dramatic gesture of sending U.S.-held gold to Europe to loosen the tight market. But Treasury officials felt that any indication that the dollar needed crutches...
Into Rome's grandiose Palazzo dei Congressi one day last week poured 1,400 purposeful women from 41 nations. Blonde-tressed Norwegians in embroidered blue skirts mingled with black-haired Ghanaians in flowing brown and gold robes. Swiss Frauen sported delicate lace caps, and Icelanders regally balanced gold diadems with trailing white veils. Here and there through the colorful throng could be seen the somber black habit of a nun. Remarkably little feminine chatter disturbed the solemnity of the occasion: the twelfth International Congress of Midwives...
...prone to ecstasy that sometimes his Masses would last for hours while he remained in trance. Levitation seemed to come easily to him, according to chroniclers of his time, and was a source of much embarrassment. He forestalled it wherever possible by cracking outrageous jokes: he even seized a Swiss guard's beard to keep him from taking off. One witness stated in his deposition at Philip's canonization process that he had seen the saint with his feet off the ground on innumerable occasions...