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...fellow researchers, anthropologist Bonnie K. Holcomb and Swiss journalist Peter Niggli, conducted extensive interviews of nearly 250 randomly selected Ethiopian refugees in several regions of the Sudan...
...considerably more skin and make a far racier pitch than ever before. One ad, for example, shows a man clad in little but shaving cream, his eyes closed, one arm tightly embracing a scantily clad woman as she wields the razor. The object being promoted: Swatch watches, a trendy Swiss brand. Sure enough, on second look, each is wearing two of them. The broken taboo: seduction in the bathroom...
...Tony Award and an Oscar, almost obscured his achievements as a movie performer, photographer and TV director; after a two- year battle with cancer; in New York City. He was born Taidje Khan on Sakhalin Island, off the coast of Siberia, to a Rumanian Gypsy mother and a Swiss-Mongolian father. Reared in Peking and Paris, he was a cabaret singer and circus acrobat before becoming an actor, arriving in the U.S. in 1941 and making his Broadway debut in the 1946 Lute Song. He brought his bald-pated, brooding persona to three dozen films, most notably The Ten Commandments...
Elek said he was one of 40 foreigners in Wad Sherife, a refugee camp of 100,000 on the eastern border of Sudan and Ethiopia. Oxfam, CARE, the American Refugee Committee, and the Swiss Red Cross jointly administer the camp under the authority of the Sudanese government...
Caroline is one of those New York Women who seems to have been everywhere. She talks of going to Paris the way most people talk about crossing the street. When she turned 18 this past year, her aristocratic Swiss boyfriend took her on a junket through Africa for a change of scenery, and she plans to spend this summer in Sardinia...