Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congratulations for your excellent article about the foreign labor situation in Switzerland. After 2½ years in the U.S., I recently returned to my native country and was ashamed of the treatment of the foreign residents. I blame the present situation on Swiss industry, which prefers importing cheap labor to making investments for modernization and mechanization...
...Although I agree in general with your article about Switzerland, there is one remark in it that I feel is unjust. You stated that the Swiss do not like foreigners except for their money. Do you know how many Swiss have learned the Italian language for no other purpose than for ease of communication with the immigrants...
...even more excited. "Sheer drivel!" he cried when asked about U.S. demands that Communist guerrilla attacks in South Viet Nam be stopped. "There will be no peace in Indo-China," prophesied Chen, "so long as the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism hang on there." Later, Chen told a touring Swiss journalist: "The Chinese people will not stand idly by as North Viet Nam is attacked. China and North Viet Nam go together like teeth and lips...
...climb the familiar old hills. And he had a really novel idea for the Matterhorn: a "direttissima" assault, straight up the mountain's ice-coated, practically vertical north wall, a climb that had been tried (without success) only once before-in the summer. It was, shuddered a Swiss guide, "the route that a drop of water would follow...
Married. Princess Fadia, 21, youngest daughter of Egypt's ex-king Farouk and his first wife Farida; and Pierre Orloff, 26, Swiss geologist, well-born son of an exiled White Russian; in a civil ceremony at which Farouk was noticeably absent (he wanted Fadia to marry a Moslem, not a Russian Orthodox); in London...