Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight weeks photographed eight of the world's reigning beauties, for this week's color spread. Packing about 200 lbs. of special equipment, he jumped about from Brazil to Bangkok. Oddly enough, he came upon two of his reigning beauties about 15 miles apart, near the Swiss resort town of Gstaad. There he photographed Mme. Houphouet-Boigny, whose husband runs the Ivory Coast, and Philadelphia's Grace Kelly, whose husband runs Monaco. Halsman, who has known Princess Grace from her Hollywood days, finds her a cool customer, but "I consider her profile the most beautiful I ever...
...Parisian hair dressers (Carita), and dressed by Dior, whose salon is strategically located across the street from the Houphouet-Boignys' apartment. She prefers pastels and bright colors and, says her Dior salesgirl, "would never touch anything black." The affluent Houphouet-Boignys also have a villa in the stylish Swiss resort of Gstaad (her six-year-old adopted daughter, Hélène, is attending school in Switzerland), an Ivory Coast beach house, an ultramodern five-story tower in the fashionable Cocody sector of Abidjan, the Ivory Coast's capital...
...Time and again, the psychiatrist is consulted by patients who doubt that life has any meaning," said Dr. Frankl. "This condition I have called 'existential vacuum.'" And in a survey of his own students, Dr. Frankl found that while 40% of the Germans, Swiss and Austrians report existential vacuum, no less than 81% of the Americans say they have felt...
Noise imitation is an art generously described as culturally insignificant, and its practitioners are historically tenants of the ghetto reserved for Swiss bell-ringing acts and families who come onstage to play Jealousy on paper-covered combs. But Lucho Navarro, a Chilean who gave up aspirations for the quiet life of an electrical engineer to devote himself to noisemaking, is such a master of the art that his wordless vocabulary has become a hilarious Esperanto; by imitating the sound of nearly everything, Navarro reminds his listeners that the world is indeed full of sound and fury. Coming from...
Inevitably, there was endless speculation as to who was behind the combine. Sheraton executives suggested it might be oil-rich Saudi Arabians-perhaps even King Saud himself. Others were certain that it was a group of Swiss financiers. Last week Hawaii discovered with some shock and much irreverent merriment that there was nobody behind the combine...