Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classic Spanish woman in her home. In private life, she is my wife, not I the consort of Victoria de los Angeles." ¶Belgrade-born Dragan Debeljevic, 39, abandoned plans for a career as an art and musical historian to guide the career of his wife, Swiss-born Soprano Lisa Delia Casa. While he was studying at the University of Zurich he heard Delia Casa sing, married her not long after. By his testimony, his wife was not an ambitious girl ("she was not born for this profession") and had to be worried by him into a star contract with...
...Such Swiss Family Robinson stuff had its curiosity value to all but the other morning paper in San Francisco, Hearst's Examiner, which, while still leading the Chronicle in circulation, 276,692 to 270,285, views with sour face the Chronicle's aggressive efforts to catch up. At length, the Examiner could stand no more. Up to the Boyd survival site it sent newsmen for a look around...
...with "interesting" problems, e.g., computing interest. Such teaching is completely alien to the child's mind, says Beberman. "Children are not miniature adults. They have a thirst for the abstract and the world of fancy." They may even grasp math relationships faster than reading and writing. As famed Swiss Educator Jean Piaget put it after introducing complex topological math to six-year-olds: "They knew it anyway. It is the language and thought of the child." All of this still escapes most math teachers. When they introduce equations, they hammer home superficial techniques...
...sheen of this particular miracle is fading. Last week Karl Van Berk, president of West Germany's 520,000-member Coal Miners' and Energy Workers' Union, declared: "The time for a raise is now or never." Prosperous French Automaker Peugeot, whose parts plant is near the Swiss border, has traditionally relied on local farmers for workers. But this year, in full production and squeezed by a labor-tight France and a labor-short Switzerland, Peugeot had to grant a 5% wage boost and a bonus besides. In Copenhagen, when management gave in to a wildcat strike...
...musette bag of red-haired Horace Sutton are Dramamine tablets, bug spray, a ten-bladed Swiss army knife, cable cards, swimming trunks, traveler's checks-and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of paregoric. These are the tools of Sutton's profession: he is a travel writer, working for newspapers and magazines in an age when more and more of the world's citizens are excursioning to more and more foreign countries...