Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under well-established international practice, embassy property is regarded as inviolable even after a break in diplomatic relations. Castro, who needs no precedents, said he was merely retaliating for the recent freeze clamped on Cuban assets in the U.S. He ordered out the Swiss mission that has occupied and managed the embassy for the U.S. since...
Apparently a well-coordinated ring of German, Austrian, and possibly Swiss and American grain dealers arranged to have the shipments moved from such ports as Hamburg and Bremen directly into West German and other European markets, where grain brings premium prices. It was months later that a U.S. embassy official in Vienna compared shipping records and realized that while 40 million bushels of feed had left U.S. ports, only 16 million had ever reached Austria. Six Austrian grain importers were arrested and released on bail ranging up to $200,000, one of the highest figures in the country...
...Rachman felt ill. He was rushed to Edgware General Hospital, and perhaps died of a heart attack. On his wrist was a gold bracelet whose inside, as a hospital attendant described it, was covered with a series of numbers that could be either safe combinations or account numbers in Swiss banks. Whatever Rachman did with his reputed fortune of $25 million, it was not found in his personal estate, which came to about...
...with the banging of the hammer innocently driving a horseshoe-pitching stake outside. Wardrobes of German clothes are run up from blankets and uniforms dyed in coffee or ink; whole wallets full of identity papers are forged; money, emergency rations, maps are scrounged. The tunnel is a marvel of Swiss Family Robinson ingenuity, with electric lights, a little subway running on wooden tracks, a bellows-operated ventilation system. And as the first of the 76 escapers starts through the tunnel, the thongs of suspense are only beginning to tighten...
...daddy of the "theme" parks, Disneyland, has recognized that it's wise to play surprise-surprise to be sure that those cash registers clang. Though 5,000,000 contented customers trouped through Walt's Sleeping Beauty Castle and Indian Village last year, he has added The Swiss Family Treehouse, which will lead kiddies through 150,000 handmade leaves and blossoms to the Robinsons' abode 80 feet above the jungle-delightfully furnished with flotsam, jetsam (down to the last doily), plus a fabulous view. And the Oakland, (Calif.) Children's Fairyland has built a Chinese Tree Teahouse...