Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Theologians always tend to clothe themselves in honorary gowns, and since the great Swiss, Karl Barth, may still be in the country June 14, his name is a sound one. Rumor also spreads word of Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike. Among foreign diplomats Herve Alphand, Ambassador of France, seems a more than probable choice. Douglas MacArthur, unable to collect his degree on the last occasions of its awarding, will hopefully manage to come this year...
...four-hour tour of Gettysburg, Civil War Buff Karl Barth, 76, astonished his guides with a fusillade of little-known facts. Led to the spot where the first large body of Confederate troops had deployed, the Swiss theologian smiled knowingly, "Yes, that was [Major General Henry] Heth's group." Told that a Lutheran seminary in which he was lunching had been used as a Union observation post, he nonchalantly rattled off the name of Major General John Buford as the post's commander. Moving south, Barth paused on a battlefield near Richmond. Va., raised a century-old Yankee...
Among the items chosen for function, taste and performance: > Fishing reels whose every part has a function, whose polished movements are worthy of Swiss watches, whose beauty is evocative of fine silverware...
...Swiss scientist who examined the wreckage decided that the cause was probably "human failure" by the pilot. But the U.N. panel refused to accept or reject this possibility, remained similarly noncommittal toward any other theory, including sabotage by Katanga forces, who were battling U.N. troops at the time...
...cash. He gets 75% of his income outside the U.S. market and netted $3,000,000 for 1952's Limelight, not counting U.S. royalties. Royalties roll in steadily from his old films, most of which he owns outright. Like many foreign stars living in Switzerland, he pays the Swiss government a flat and fairly nominal yearly sum, and no additional income taxes. He has never lost his penny-conscious regard for money. In fact, although he lives in a country twice as thrifty as Scotland, he is celebrated locally as the biggest tightwad in the canton...