Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have pioneered the self-service supermarket, but the Swiss are leading the way toward putting it on the honor system. Last week the big Migros Federation (1965 gross: $450 million) announced that after a successful six-month trial in a suburban Zurich store, it was extending an honor-system checkout to other stores...
...Berlin under the sharp eye of Josef Joachim, who soon brought the Wunderkind to Barth. At eleven, he played Mozart's Concerto in A Major with the Berlin Symphony. In 1906, thanks to the influence of a U.S. music critic who had heard him play at Paderewski's Swiss villa, the young pianist was signed for a tour of the U.S. It was a dud. At his debut in Carnegie Hall, the critics dismissed Rubinstein for being, as one put it, "half-baked?not a prodigy, not an adult." Those were the days when he was playing with more fire...
...elder son, Frantz, has not been seen by his father for 1 3 years, ever since World War II ended. Dressed in a bedraggled German officer's uniform, he hurls things at a faded poster of Hitler, sips stale champagne, occasionally munches on "war medals" made of Swiss chocolate. His sister brings him food and incestuous love...
...seven years' imprisonment at hard labor. But by that time Walcott had been in London to recruit two pilots and rent a plane under the pretext that he ran a freight-hauling service for oil companies in the Middle East. Picking up a consignment of 675 Swiss watches in Nicosia, he headed back to India under the name of Peter Philby...
Issues of Veracity. In a marathon, ten-month proceeding, the tortured story of Krebiozen was told and retold. The Durovic brothers had made millions, the Government charged, and salted some away in Swiss banks. Dr. Ivy's savings were said to have jumped in eight years from a mere $16,983 to $222,153 (his wife had done well in Wall Street, explained Ivy). The defendants, the prosecution claimed, had encouraged patients to visit Chicago, then supplied them with Krebiozen to take to their home-town doctors-which was illegal in any case where the patient crossed a state...