Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ZURICH, Switzerland, Feb. 11--Greece and Turkey agreed yesterday on a constitution designed to give independence and peace to the British-ruled island of Cyprus...
...cuckoo clock." This gibe was not even correct: a German in the Black Forest invented the cuckoo clock. But it barely ruffled the Swiss, who often appear to think that they, not the Greeks, invented democracy, and that only they understand its proper practice. The cardinal rule of Switzerland's unwritten democratic law is that only men shall vote. In the rest of Europe, only tiny Liechtenstein and Monaco also deny the ballot to women...
...Switzerland's 22 cantons last week, this bulwark of the Swiss way of life was meeting its supreme test: the first nationwide referendum on whether women should vote. Typically, the campaigning -both pro and con-was conducted with sobriety, even with somnolence. No suffragettes surged in milling thousands through the streets; there were no feminist rallies, no raised voices. Even the potent Frauenverein, the women's organization responsible for the lack of alcohol and night life in Zurich, only went as far as to say that it was "not against" women's voting. The liberal newspaper Neue...
...Switzerland, Bud Werner, 22, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., swept the international men's downhill at Lenzerheide, after winning the previous week's downhill race at Kitzbuhel. Despite driving winds on the tricky 2.4-mile slope, Werner tore downhill in 2 min. 22.7 sec. to break the course record by 24 seconds...
...Take Credit." ODCM's decision also raised complaints in Congress. Wisconsin's Democratic Congressman Henry Reuss asked the White House why the Tennessee Valley Authority last November awarded a $2,637,000 contract for electric generators to Switzerland's Brown Boveri instead of to the low domestic bidder, suburban Milwaukee's Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. Louisiana Democrat T. Hale Boggs, chairman of the House reciprocal-trade-agreements subcommittee, promised a thorough investigation of the B.L.H. award. Asked Boggs: "Does this mean that we invoke the national-defense clause when an industry at home is having some...