Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Picks What? The $10,000 Guggenheim International Award, won by Swiss Sculptor-Painter Alberto Giacometti, is supposed to go, explains Curator Lawrence Alloway, to "the great wherever seen. When Harry Guggenheim started the whole thing in 1956, he saw the prizes as a kind of equivalent of the Nobel Prize, something that was awarded regardless of national boundaries." Alloway spent a year and a half traveling in 30 countries to choose entries for the 1964 Guggenheim International, and the jury that then picked the winners included Painter Hans Hofmann, Arnold Rüdlinger, director of the Kunsthalle in Basel...
...Fourth Dimension. Swiss by birth, Kurt Seligmann grew up in Basel, studied art in Geneva, and in 1929 joined the Abstraction-Creation group in Paris. There he worked with Jean Arp in surrealist exploration of a limbo of landscape of imaginary objects utterly divorced from reality. Like Arp, he drew "biomorphs," or lifelike forms-egg shapes, darning sticks, blobs crisply drawn over tempera grounds. To shock the stuffy, he dutifully garlanded a guitar with ivy and epaulets, fitted a stool with four female legs clad in silk stockings. But if he seemed to be trying only to be fashionable...
...Kennedy Award of the Catholic Interracial Council of Chicago, thus becoming the first head of the Presbyterian Church ever honored by a Catholic group; Fisk University President Stephen Wright, 53, elected a board director of the Association of American Colleges, the first Negro ever to achieve such a post; Swiss Sculptor-Painter Alberto Giacometti, 62, named for the $10,000 Guggenheim International Award, the U.S.'s richest art prize; Actress Patricia Neal, 38, Actor Albert Finney, 27, and Director Tony Richardson, 35, presented with the 1963 New York Film Critics' top awards for their work in Hud (Miss...
...another $160 million from such sources as the World Bank and the Latin American moneymen, who are normally wary of investing in their own homelands. So far, a dozen firms have pledged up to $500,000 each, including Italy's Fiat, Belgium's Petrofina, Switzerland's Swiss Bank Corp., a Japanese consortium, and the U.S.'s IBM and Standard...
...placing third in the second. Last week at Grindelwald, Switzerland, all of Europe's top skiers were on hand for the winter's biggest pre-Olympic competition. When lack of snow forced cancellation of the downhill race and threatened to wipe out the whole program, the Swiss moved the races to the base of the Eiger, a forbidding 13,036-ft. peak in the Bernese Alps that has claimed the lives of a score of mountain climbers...