Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority party take annual turns as the country's nominal President. When the presidency came around to Washington Beltrán.* 51, a Blanco Party leader and onetime editor of Montevideo's daily El Pais, he went on TV with a drastic proposal: abolish the Swiss-style council and return posthaste to a single, strong President. Said Beltrán: "If the government is required to govern, it must be provided with the means...
...real problem, argues Swiss Theologian Hans Küng, is how soon and how widely the spirit of the council is accepted throughout the church. If it is not, he warns, it could lead "to an extremely serious crisis of confidence in regard to the ecclesiastical office, which will not result in a new schism (no one today would find that worth the trouble), but rather in a further quiet exodus from the church on the part of so many for whom the council has rekindled a new hope. And who should like to take upon himself the responsibility...
Splitting the Proceeds. Aniline's Swiss owner, a holding company called Inter-handel, will net $121 million from the sale because of former Attorney General Robert Kennedy's controversial decision to settle its ownership claims out of court by splitting the proceeds. The Government's $208 million will go into a war-claims fund to pay U.S. citizens for property and (in some cases) relatives lost during World War II. As for the anxious new investors, they hope to profit by the improvement in General Aniline's prospects already begun under research-minded President Dr. Jesse...
...most of the lines are adequate transitions between the songs and dances. And besides, the two shysters, Hammond Deggs (Dean Stolber) and Hammond Swiss (James McBaine), can pawn anything off-even on the audience. Along with the mammoth Dean Unciate (Harry Q. Lapham), these two infuse the show with a relaxed lightness and gaiety which infiltrates almost the whole cast. Their duets are simply fine pieces of stage business...
...high on Pope John XXIII and nuclear disarmament. But Lenny, the ski bum, is not bright and earnest. He is bright and cynical, a young American who sees himself as fallout from the population explosion. On the lam from living, he finds escape only in the purity of the Swiss snow fields, where he maintains himself all winter by giving ski lessons, and sometimes his fair body as well, to rich ladies...