Word: swiss
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...Nepalese village after surviving the blizzards and bitter cold of the Himalayas for 50 days with only 20 days' rations. Led by Tufts University Philosophy Professor Woodrow Wilson Sayre, 43, grandson of the late U.S. President, the amateur foursome-including a geology student, a Boston attorney, a Swiss schoolteacher-had cocksurely attempted to climb the unsealed 25,910-ft. Gyachung Kang peak without either oxygen or Sherpa guides...
Their writings banned, their bodies burned at the stake and their souls consigned to the justice of God, the rebels of Christianity have usually been reported to history through the prejudiced accounts of their vigilant, orthodox suppressors. Historian Walter Nigg, a Swiss Reformed pastor and former professor at the University of Zurich, believes that heretics were not necessarily bad men, and their doctrines not necessarily perversions of God's truth. In The Heretics (Knopf; $6.95). a vivid survey of the church's theological underground, he argues that Christianity owes much to its rebel sons, and has freely adapted...
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FERNAND BERNOULLI Swiss Ambassador to Mexico Mexico City > Let Reader Bernoulli check his address book. President and Mine. Houphouet-Boigny own a villa in Gstaad, Switzerland, and their daughter attends school there...
Died. Gottlieb Duttweiler, 73. Swiss merchant titan who built the $250 million-a-year Migros cooperative food chain (also taxi fleets, sewing machines, Mi-grol gas and oil) by showing the Swiss how to fight price wars, then gave his super-marketing venture to his customers as their gain; of a heart attack; in Zurich...