Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since war's end, however, things seem to have been looking up again for M.R.A. At last year's World Assembly, 5,000 delegates held their sessions at an Alpine resort hotel the Buchmanites had newly purchased in Switzerland. In Los Angeles last week, Assembly delegates ate, slept and lounged in a brand-new seven-story local headquarters. "Buchmanism" never seems to worry about funds. But its sources of income, like the number of its converts, are matters that Buchmanites are vague about. Says Founder Frank Buchman solemnly: "Where God guides, God provides...
There is still some red tape that has to be cut in order to make the trip. Except for the Scandinavian countries, Holland, and Switzerland, all the nations require visas, the prices of which range from nothing for the Belgian to $4.35 for the French. You can try getting into Germany by writing the State Department, but there doesn't seem to be any way of touring through Yugoslavia...
Marie-Jose, Italy's last Queen (for 26 days in 1946), went to Switzerland from Portugal for eye-doctoring. Paraly sis of the optic nerve threatened her with blindness...
Foreign Issue. The World Bank sold its first issue of foreign currency bonds for $4,000,000 in Swiss francs to the Bank for International Settlements at Basel, Switzerland. The proceeds of the issue will be used to buy electrical equipment in Switzerland for The Netherlands, as part of a World Bank loan to the Dutch government...
Brainchild of Switzerland's 55-year-old Professor Giedion-whose Space, Time and Architecture (1941) was a notable technical study-Mechanization Takes Command takes a tremendous stab at measuring the changeable human animal against the tools and technical appliances which have been associated with him from the early records of history to the present day. Professor Giedion holds that "the sun is mirrored even in a coffee spoon," looks for the truth about man in "humble things," and finds Hitler and Napoleon no more instructive than Linus Yale (locks), Clarence Birdseye (frozen food) and Sylvester Graham (bread...