Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the first, the powers have been there for a strong President to use. When the Swiss examined the U.S. Constitution as a possible model for their own 1848 charter, they rejected it on the grounds that the presidency is a "matrix for dictatorship." Nonetheless, even the most activist Presidents have run into brick walls. "Lincoln was a sad man," F.D.R. once said, "because he couldn't get it all at once. And nobody can." At the end of one of his poorer days, Truman growled over a bourbon and water: "They talk about the power of the President...
Everyone involved seems satisfied with the arrangement except, perhaps, Founder Bedas. Since the bank's closing he has been to Brazil and to Switzerland, where he was recently arrested for, of all things, illegal parking. Bedas is still being held while Swiss authorities consider an extradition request from Lebanon, which wants him on a criminal charge of fraudulent bankruptcy. But it is doubtful that Bedas will be extradited, or tried if he is. So much and so many were probably involved in Intra Bank's collapse that, with the bank in business again, Lebanon would just as soon...
...Contributions Thermometer" outside the museum speedily rose until it shot $45,000 above the required mark, but a number of staid Swiss violently dissented. Some felt that the city's funds would be better used for hospitals and schools, while others simply disliked Staechelin (many a Easier had owned stock in the airline, and many others lost their jobs when it went bankrupt). The anti-Picasso faction drummed up enough signatures on a petition to force a referendum. After a spirited campaign, the city opted last week to buy the Picassos by a vote...
Eastman Kodak Co. has a Swiss man ager in Italy, a Dutchman in Portugal and a Cuban in Venezuela. SGS-Fair-child, European subsidiary of Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., advertises its management staff as "an SGS-Fair-child cocktail: one part Italian, four parts British, one part French, one part Swedish, one part German, served with an American olive...
...president of Esso Sekiyu, the Japanese affiliate. Choosing as many capable executives as possible from Europe, Campbell ended up with a mix that includes 121 Americans, four Canadians, one Venezuelan, 86 Britons, 21 Germans, 16 Frenchmen, 14 Italians, ten Belgians, ten Norwegians, nine Swedes, eight Dutchmen, two Danes, two Swiss, one Finn and one Maltese, who all work comfortably together with English as their lingua Esso. Jersey resettled them with even a pamphlet of helpful translations: diapers in England are called nappies, and a hot-water heater is a geyser...