Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hands of modern sculptors from Rodin to Lehmbruck, man's anatomy has shrunk as if he were being returned to dust. But no one has reduced the image of man to such near nothingness as Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti. During the 1940s, his sculptures shrank so much that he carried the results of four years' work in six matchboxes in his pocket; and since then, try as he may, his lovely, attenuated figures still look like fugitives from a cane gang. Inevitably, Giacometti's search for essentials gave his work a lean and existential look, leading Jean...
Over the years, Swiss bankers have striven to create an image of them selves as the Alps of finance - solid, silent and snowy white. The effort has been successful. To the anonymous sanc tuary of their numbered accounts, the bankers have attracted nervous money from the world's teetering tyrants and the merely discreet rich. Swiss banks yearly draw more than $500 million in foreign capital, earn almost as much as the tourist industry. Lately, how ever, the reputation of the Swiss bank ers has become somewhat tarnished...
...Algerian government has accused the Swiss bankers of harboring $12 million that a rebel sequestered from Premier ben Bella's treasury. Last week, in a far more serious affair, Switzerland was shaken by one of the worst scandals in the annals of Swiss banking. 'The government suspended from office the man most directly re sponsible for policing the country's banking integrity: Max Hommel, presi dent of the Swiss Banking Commission...
Tino himself drew at least $100,000 a year from Allied, boasts that he munificently gave away perhaps $3,000,000 to pals. Now he claims that he is broke. But the court pried out of him the fact that he had $500,000 in a numbered Swiss bank account; this cache has been turned over to his bankruptcy trustees. How much more Tino may have stashed away is a secret locked in the nimble brain of the fat man who fooled everybody. If he values his freedom highly, he may, under the terms of his sentence, still tell quite...
...heavies did not use their Swiss-designed Stampfil shell at Navy because the shall wouldn't have arrived back from Annapolis until Tuesday, depriving the crew of two days' practice this week. Although the shorter Stampfil is not appreciably waster than the traditional American shell, the Crimson prefers it and wants to use it all week in preparation for the Sprints...