Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Baroness Fiona Thyssen-Bornemisza, 31, one of 1963's ten best-dressed women, and Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, 42, German-born Swiss industrialist: their second child, first son; in Castagnola, Switzerland...
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, by C. G. Jung. A fascinating autobiographical account of the dream life of the great Swiss psychologist, who, in rejecting Freud and in pursuing his own mystic world of psychic energy, at last turned his back on much of the scientific thought of his own time...
Cardinal Aloisi Masella decided that the Pope's body should be carried through St. Peter's Square before it lay in state inside the basilica. On the day after his death, Palatine and Swiss Guards led the great procession through the square, crowded with upwards of 80,000 people. The Pope's body lay on a litter; behind it walked his sister and three brothers, in tears. Inside St. Peter's, the corpse was borne to a high catafalque beneath the ornate Bernini baldacchino that covers the main altar...
...were many. The surprise is that so few did. In Paris, the principal radio station bulletined news of the Pope's death 67 hours before it happened, then made it self look more foolish the following day with the breathless announcement, "He's still alive!"The German-Swiss tabloid Blick -which, appropriately, is printed on pale yellow paper -passed the word two days early and was promptly at tacked in 12,000 copies of a handbill drawn up by citizens of Lucerne...
...English have been drinking something with the un-British name of Schweppes ever since a Swiss by the name of Schweppe went to Britain and began to make an artificial mineral water in 1794. Schweppes quinine tonic water, introduced in the 1860s, followed the flag of empire around the world...