Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHALET. From a little fresh-air balcony in the Swiss pavilion you can watch the aerial gondolas coast overhead, sip cool rose wine, sample Swiss cheeses, and cook bite-size cubes of filet mignon (Fondue Bourguignonne) right on the table. Dipped in five sauces, they are delicious...
...Alpine avalanche that also took the life of U.S. Down hill Ace Bud Werner. And the memory of that tragic day is not growing any dimmer for Willy Bogner Jr., 22, son of the Bavarian stretch-pants manufacturer and a fledgling moviemaker. He has been indicted by a Swiss state prosecutor for homicidal negligence in Barbi's and Werner's deaths. Such cases usually receive light sentences, but, for the sake of assigning responsibility, the state expects to prove that in his eagerness to complete a documentary in which the two skiers were starring, young Bogner, as producer...
...Africa and parts of South America. In countries where water supplies are kept free from sewage contamination and where food handlers follow the basic rules of cleanliness, typhoid is a rare disease. When it erupts in a place that prides itself on good sanitation, as it did in the Swiss ski resort of Zermatt 18 months ago, it causes a violent flap. Last week there was a new typhoid flap in clean Aberdeen, Scotland (pop. 186,000). There were 324 confirmed cases (two deaths) and 55 suspected, with still more expected...
Were it not for Von Salis, personal knowledge of this most private of men would be largely left to the colored memoirs of the ladies of his life. Von Salis, formerly professor of history at the Swiss Institute of Technology, was a young man when he knew Rilke during the last seven years of the poet's self-exile in Switzerland, and his partial biography has been a primary source of countless articles and other writings on Rilke since it was first published in 1936. It has now appeared for the first time in English, translated by Norah Kelsall...
With a little foreknowledge, this need not be. Nearly all the better things at the fair are free, and those that are not cost little. Actually, the biggest money drain is the high cost of drinks. In Switzerland the gutters are full of kirsch, but at the Swiss chalet a petit shot costs $1.25. Cocktails and highballs are rare at $1, more common...