Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swiss pride themselves on discreetly welcoming even the most notorious guest, but even they were hard put last week to keep their cool. Into their midst dropped perhaps the biggest defector ever to leave the Soviet Union, Stalin's daughter Svetlana. That was bad enough, but it was nothing compared with the force of 200 reporters and TV cameramen that fanned across the country in search of Svetlana, to whom the Swiss gave a visa and the promise of privacy. While Swiss detectives plotted the newsmen's progress like generals keeping tabs on enemy guerrillas, the international press...
They helped her to get to Geneva, where the Swiss last week spirited her away to an Alpine retreat in Beatenberg (pop. 1,200), about 26 miles from Berne. Living in a small hotel, the Jungfraublick, Svetlana relaxed for two days in the crisp air, enjoyed a breathtaking view of the Jungfrau and other peaks. Feeling confident, she strolled to a nearby ski shop to buy a parka and ski pants, more appropriate to the surroundings than the olive two-piece suit that she wore. It was her undoing. The store owner recognized her and phoned the news...
...found, and Washington, which was be ginning to have second thoughts about the whole affair, was keeping quiet. Finally, to spare the U.S. further embarrassment, Svetlana agreed to go to Switzerland instead and, four days after her Rome arrival, flew on to Geneva. Stalin's daughter, said the Swiss government, "has informed us that she needs a rest, and we have given her a tourist visa for a limited period, with the stipulation that she must be ready to move at any time." Move where? To the U.S.? Back to Italy? No one was saying. Once again Svetlana...
Although the first ski bob was apparently patented in the U.S. in 1892, the sport only recently started flourishing in the resort center of Crans-Montana in the Swiss Alps. When the first handful of ski bobbers showed up there two years ago, they were greeted by derisive laughter; now the resort has three slopes set aside for their use, rents out 600 bobs at $4 per day. Half a dozen other Alpine resorts, including Davos, Arosa and St. Moritz, are readying skibob slopes for next season, in hopes of attracting an entirely new clientele: people on the far side...
...that bobbing is necessarily for sissies. At last week's Swiss International Grand Prix at Crans-Montana, Austria's Willi Brenter, 24, outbobbed 113 competitors in the three-mile downhill run with a brisk average speed of 46 m.p.h. Brenter's brother Erich holds the world's speed record of 102 m.p.h., which is only 6 m.p.h. slower than Luigi de Marco's speed record on skis. "It is a calumny to say that only older people are interested in ski bobs," says Erich Brenter. "Ski bobs remove some of the danger of skiing...