Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already asked three questions. "You dodged three times," replied the uncowed Mollenhoff. "You seem to dodge everything, Mr. Secretary." Exploded McNamara: "I unfortunately haven't been able to dodge all the rocks you have thrown at me for five years." Three days later McNamara was off on a Swiss skiing vacation, by presidential order. Muttered L.B.J. to aides: "He ought to know better than to tackle that s.o.b...
Nature's most catastrophic events are supernovae-rare stars that burst with a brilliance 100 million times more luminous than the sun, releasing the equivalent of 200 trillion trillion 100-megaton hydrogen bombs. Swiss Astronomer Paul Wild has just added a new one to the stellar log-the first supernova seen from the earth in the unnamed galaxy N.G.C. 4189 in the constellation Virgo...
Died. Zinaida Pasternak, 69, second wife of the late Boris Pasternak, who married the author in the early 1930s, and may or may not (no one will say) have had access to the rich Swiss bank account set up for Pasternak's heirs by the Italian publisher of Doctor Zhivago; of cancer; in Moscow...
...patient, "I'm going to break your jaw," he might confidently expect to lose the patient. Yet, last week 500 of the most eminent U.S. oral surgeons* sat on the edges of their chairs at Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center, as a respected Swiss practitioner described his radical, jaw-splitting procedures for correcting severe malformations. When Zurich's Dr. Hugo Obwegeser had finished a presentation that took most of three days, Cornell Uni versity's Dr. Stanley Behrman stated flatly: "American oral surgeons have never been so impressed, and I think that all over...
...Adolf Hitler rejected an invitation to attend a meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees, formed by Franklin D. Roosevelt to consider the problem of Nazi Germany's persecuted Jews. Nevertheless, Hitler was represented, if unofficially, at the conference in Evian-les-Bains, a French spa near the Swiss border. His emissary was Dr. Heinrich von Neumann, a Viennese Jew, who arrived on a strange and cold-blooded mission: to offer for sale, at $250 a head, 40,000 Austrian Jews...