Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wandering Birds. The British roam the moors, the heaths and the braes; Swiss and French scale the Alps, while Arab and Hindu plod weary miles to reach Mecca or the Ganges. To the German, however, the act, and not the object of the journey, is what counts. German doctors and orthopedists recommend wandern as good for the heart, lungs, legs and circulation. German sociologists inquire anxiously on questionnaires, "Do you walk with your wife?" -presumably on the theory that togetherness begins along the trail. German scholars account for the national wanderlust with learned references to Goethe and the 19th century...
When Rene Verdon quit in a Gallic huff last month as White House chef, Lady Bird Johnson had already lined up his successor: Henri Haller, 43, Swiss-born executive chef at New York City's Sheraton-East Hotel, better known to gourmets as the old Ambassador (and soon to be torn down for an office building). By last week Haller's security clearance was in, and the White House announced his appointment. He was immediately enmeshed in the big blender of bureaucracy. The White House handout changed his first name to plain old Henry, and Liz Carpenter, Lady...
...years, Indira was packed off to a Swiss boarding school, but she soon returned, and at age twelve organized a neighborhood society of kids, called the Monkey Brigade, whose small members specialized in sneaking messages past British sentries, picketing stores selling foreign clothes, and freeing adult Congress members from routine jobs. A relative recalls that Indira once rushed up to some British police who were clubbing and arresting Indian demonstrators, crying, "Arrest...
...JEAN TINGUELY, 40, a Swiss living in Paris, owes more to Dada than to the logic of the dynamo. His jittery, rattly, eccentric pseudo mechanisms spring from a view of man as the prisoner of cogs and cam wheels rather than their master. As the enfant terrible of kinetics, he exhibited his Homage to New York (once) in the sculpture garden of the Museum of Modern Art in 1960. Despite the efforts of the fire department, his machine destroyed itself. Since then, his bolt-and-nutty contraptions have been more durable. His Dissecting Machine (opposite page) is a gleeful guillotine...
...Swiss impressionist painter, Giacometti went to Paris in 1922 to study with Rodin's pupil Bourdelle, and settled in the tiny Montparnasse studio where he worked the rest of his life...