Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since its birth in 1291, when three Alpine cantons banded together for protection against Germany, Switzerland has treasured its strict neutrality in world affairs.* As early as 1674 the Swiss Diet officially pronounced the concept to be the country's guiding principle. The one time that Switzerland was forced to join an outside conflict-by leaping to the Austro-British side against Napoleon in 1815 six days before Waterloo-Swiss soldiers sent into France lost interest, turned around and went home. Neutral in two world wars this century. Switzerland is today not even a member of the United...
Last week, the little land of mountains, milk and money took what many Swiss consider to be a historic plunge. After more than a decade of suspicious observation, it joined the 16-nation Council of Europe, an organization of representatives of European parliaments that debates such matters as social security and human rights, and talks vaguely about ways "to achieve a greater unity" in Europe...
...nails in frustration. But a good offensive tackle knows a dozen devastating ways to accomplish just one mission-block. He even went to college to learn that. In pro football, nothing is left to chance: a single play may have 100 variations, each fashioned as meticulously as a fine Swiss watch. Nothing is what it seems: the quarterback fades back, cocks his arm, looks downfield-but what's this?-the fullback is already in the secondary, with the ball tucked neatly under his arm. And when the quarterback does have the ball, there he stands, cool and detached, facing...
...astonished to see your quotation from National-Zeitung's article on Trujillo's Swiss ventures [Nov. 23]. We did not say that the Trujillos brought $800 million to Switzerland but between 400 and 800 million Swiss francs, which is less than a quarter of the sum you mentioned...
...last week's concert at Carnegie Hall the orchestra offered a haunting, evocative reading of Debussy's Six Epigraphes Antiques, a relaxed, singing Brahms's Symphony No. 2, a beautifully articulated Petite Symphonic Concertante by contemporary Swiss Composer Frank Martin. Stokowski led his 95 musicians with the surgically precise gestures of the hand, the long, scythelike sweeps of the arm that are as familiar to concertgoers as the white-maned profile. At concert's end, in response to the cheers, Stokowski announced a "Christmas present" encore -his own arrangement of old and traditional Russian Christmas music...