Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abul Huda Pasha paused, went on. King Talal had finally yielded to Abul Huda's pleading and agreed to go back to Switzerland for more treatment, with his family and a small entourage. Instead, he went to Paris, where he saw the sights and refused medical treatment. He threatened the royal physician with a stick. He even turned on his son, Crown Prince Hussein, and chased him out of the room. He beat Queen Zaine, who fled to Switzerland. He struck the wife of Jordan's Minister to France. He was drinking and throwing away money on women...
...music was done, the crowd sat for two hours while the judges made up their minds. At midnight 75-year-old Queen Elisabeth smilingly took her place in the royal box, and the 13 judges trooped to the stage. Amid tumultuous cheers, the winners were announced: Leon Fleisher, first; Switzerland's Karl Engel, second; Italy's Maria Tipo, third...
...buildup, North Carolina's new plant is good news of a special sort: it represents the first entry of private U.S. enterprise into the complicated business of developing guns for aircraft. The company that will try the job is the Oerlikon Tool & Arms Corp. of America, subsidiary of Switzerland's century-old Oerlikon Works...
...Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Materiel after the war, K. B. Wolfe was concerned over the backward state of U.S. aircraft armament. Convinced that private enterprise could do a better job than the Army, he talked to Emil Georg Bührle, owner of Oerlikon and probably Switzerland's richest...
Director Sweeney canvassed collections as far afield as Florida and California. A collector in Fort Lauderdale sent Joan Miró's Dancer Listening to Organ Music in Gothic Cathedral; a San Franciscan contributed a sculpture by Britain's Henry Moore. From Switzerland, Norway and The Netherlands came such prizes as Henri Rousseau's The Hungry Lion, Edvard Munch's The Cry, and Marc Chagall's Homage to Apollinaire...