Word: swiss
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Is there Nazi gold in the Vatican basement? A recently declassified 50-year-old Treasury Department memo says the Vatican held onto 200 million Swiss francs passed it by a Nazi puppet government. Quoting a "reliable source in Italy," Treasury agent Emerson Bigelow wrote his superior in 1946 that after the fall of Nazi Germany, members of the Nazi puppet Ustasha government of Croatia sent 350 million confiscated Swiss francs to the Vatican "for safekeeping." En route, some 150 million were apparently seized by British authorities at the Austrian-Swiss border. The balance was held in the Vatican...
...could she have known who played Dynasty's Alexis Carrington Colby? Or had time to care? Till she was 14, Jewel Kilcher grew up in an unelectrified log cabin on an 800-acre homestead near Homer, Alaska. Her father Atz Kilcher was a folk singer, the son of a Swiss immigrant to Alaska who helped write the state charter (Grandpa Kilcher still tools around occasionally in his horse and buggy in Homer, scaring the residents). Her mother Nedra Carroll also sang and dabbled in other crafts. When Jewel was eight, her parents divorced, and her mother left for Anchorage. Jewel...
...cover story in 1969, she interviewed Vladimir Nabokov in the Swiss hotel where he lived. Her description of the Winter Dining Room there was an early example of her keen eye: "a smallish chamber in the hotel basement, which, despite lavish importation of daffodils and red tulips, is a frightful miniature of desolation." That was one of many reports that caught the eye of managing editor Henry Grunwald, who promoted her to senior editor. "She dazzled us with her sheer intelligence and her gentle, ironic smile. We knew that we had a treasure in Martha and that...
...number of lotto games -- and 25 percent of the proceeds go to the medical organization. After giving a credit card number, you get java-based games that play like the regular lottery, with odds just about as bad. A potentially confusing stumbling block: Tickets (and winnings) are in Swiss Francs (One SF currently equals 69 cents). Other major charitable and aid organizations are thinking maybe they should get into the web gambling game too. Up next: A Vatican bingo site...
BASEL, Switzerland: A year after its rivals Ciba Geigy and Sandoz combined to create the world's largest drug company just across town, Roche Holding is looking to catch up. Monday, the Swiss giant announced it will buy holding company Corange Inc. for $11 billion in a deal that will boost Roche's drug operations from tenth place to sixth in the worldwide medical diagnostics market. Roche will assume Corange's holdings in Germany's Boehringer Mannheim, a market leader in cardiovascular and cancer treatments. It will also gain an 84.2 percent stake in DePuy, a Warsaw, Indiana-based manufacturer...