Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was rejoicing in Belgium, which has not had a reigning queen since Baudouin's popular mother, the lovely Astrid of Sweden, was killed in a 1935 Swiss auto accident. It was hoped that marriage would mellow the taciturn and glumly authoritarian manner of King Baudouin, and the royal wedding would help take Belgian minds off the bloody catastrophe of the Congo. The rest of the world experienced the warming reaction that seems to come, especially to democratic nations, with every pomp and circumstance of vanishing royalty. In this case there was a special cause for cheers: the Cinderella...
...Swiss Psychologist Bärbel Inhelder suggests some translations. For example, a five-year-old thinks that a tall glass contains more water than a flat bowl. Shown that glass and bowl contain equal amounts, he is learning the principle of the invariance of quantities. In fact, a grade school teacher with a roulette wheel may turn out students more skilled in probabilistic reasoning than a college professor with a course in statistics...
...SWISS-HELD SHARES of Baltimore & Ohio stock are streaming to the Chesapeake & Ohio in the road's fight with the New York Central to gain control of the B. & O. So far, C. & O. has received more than 117,400 shares held by Swiss, who own about 25% of road's shares. In all, C. & O. says it has collected some 750,000 shares-nearly one-quarter of B. & O.'s outstanding stock...
Leveling the Obstacles. The novel experiment in Protestant monasticism was begun by Roger Schutz, 45, the ninth child of a Swiss Calvinist pastor and a French mother, who turned from agnosticism to study theology at Lausanne and Strasbourg and enter the ministry himself. In 1940, determined to serve where the need was greatest, he went to defeated France and settled in a rambling old stone building at Taizé, where for two years he hid Jews from the Nazis. The Germans never caught him. When they occupied Taizé, Schutz had returned to Switzerland. With four friends he continued...
...SWISS BANKS, flooded with flight capital from Cuba and Belgian Congo worth $200 million in July, have put out "Not Welcome" mats to new deposits. New depositors will have to pay ¼o/o interest plus banking charges instead of earning ½% interest on deposits. Withdrawals will require three months notice...