Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welcome back so distinguished an adopted son, the Swiss city of Basel just about knocked itself out that autumn day in 1538. Twelve years before. Hans Holbein the Younger had quit the town to seek richer rewards elsewhere. Now, dressed in the finest silk and velvet, he was court painter to King Henry VIII of England; his name was known throughout Europe, and Basel was ready to shower him with honors and commissions to lure him back permanently. The city failed, but it has cherished Holbein as its own ever since. This summer, when the University of Basel celebrated...
...Hollywood a $400,000 "malicious libel" suit was brought against Hollywood's city fathers by Actor Charles Chaplin Jr. The libel claimed by young Chaplin, son of Swiss-exiled Comedian Charlie Chaplin, is, oddly, not in anything written but in the conspicuous omission of Charlie's name from a stretch of pavement that will be known as the Hollywood "Walk of Fame," bearing the inscribed names of some 1,500 Hollywood stars, past and present. Chaplin Jr. sees his father's failure to get star billing in cement as tantamount to public disgrace. At the very least...
...biggest single block of stock (an estimated 25%) in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is held in Swiss bank accounts. In the fight between the New York Central and the Chesapeake & Ohio railroads to gain control of the B. & O. (TIME, July11), the Swiss-held shares may prove to be the decisive block. Last week the three big Swiss banks that hold the stock advised the owners, in a confidential memo, to accept the merger offer of the C. & O. Merger of the C. & O. and the B. & O., said the memo, would "present many real advantages." The banks pointed...
...merger talks started, may not be able to make up the lost ground. The C. & O. already has an estimated 10% of the B. & O.'s stock pledged to it, is reported to have the promise of another 20% from B. & O. investors in the U.S. If the Swiss go along, the C. & 0. will have more than the 51% it needs to control the B. & O., though it needs 80% for a tax-free stock trade...
...purposes: Japan relived its sorrowing memories on the 15th anniversary of the cloud over Hiroshima that killed more than 70,000 people in one flash. And to show Japan how lovable its big neighbor was, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai dropped in at a Swiss embassy reception in Peking to lecture hosts and guests on Red China's professed devotion to "peaceful coexistence...