Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SWISS SKY RIDE charges a big 75? for a four-minute cable-car trip but sends the traveler soaring 115 ft. above Samoan fire dancers, Burundi drummers, Guatemalan marimba bands and Swiss yodelers...
...leftward drift. But time has mellowed revolutionary fervor. Though the government still controls such basic industries as oil, railroads and electric power, Mexico's present political leaders have created a healthy climate in which private enterprise is actively encouraged. As a result, Mexicans have taken their money from Swiss and U.S. banks and invested it at home; savings accounts have doubled in three years; and last year foreign investment soared at the rate of $2,275,000 a week. No wonder: profits on investment range from...
...with standard repertory. This year Menuhin, who totes around a suitcase crammed with untried compositions, has performed a wide range of pieces that he has never before played in public, including several world premieres. At last week's Gstaad Festival, held in a picturesque village high in the Swiss Alps, capacity crowds jammed a 17th century church for a program of rarely heard Spanish chamber music, which Menuhin and a handpicked chamber orchestra performed from a scaffolding around the baptismal font...
...than $3 billion a year, poured in by sheiks from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia; they flock to Beirut to play among a people who speak their language and understand their needs. Moreover, 92 banks flourish on deposits from Arabs who are distrustful of their own governments and appreciate the Swiss-like secrecy enforced by law. Recently, Intra Bank of Lebanon bought the 28-story Canada House on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for its U.S. branch...
High ho, yodeled Robert Strange McNamara, 48, as he dusted off his trusty crampons, eased himself into his climbing knickers, and prepared to melt some solid Pentagon flesh in an assault on the 14,701-ft. Matterhorn. With his son Robert Craig, 14, and a dauntless Yank quintet whom Swiss whiz kids tagged "McNamara's Band," the Defense Secretary slogged up to within 2,000 ft. of the summit, where a 2-ft. snowfall programmed the computers to say no go. Back to base camp...