Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple fact that she is a linguist. She has broadcast in German, Spanish and Italian. She speaks facile though slightly accented French; at the behest of the State Department last winter she not only delivered a weekly Sunday radio talk from Paris to audiences in France, Belgium and Switzerland, but was able to make the audience respond with a surprising volume of mail...
Married. August A. ("Gussie") Busch Jr., 52, hereditary president of Anheuser-Busch, Inc. (Budweiser beer); and Gertrude ("Trudie") Buholzer, 25, a Swiss restaurateur's daughter whom he met in Switzerland in 1949 while on a trip to buy a black schnauzer; he for the third time; in Hot Springs...
That kind of good news travels fast. Soon a swarm of handout seekers buzzed around him, ten visitors a day from outlying districts, "a thousand letters a day from people all over France, Italy, Switzerland and Belgium." The abbé lit out for Paris, partly to escape, partly to pick up his fat check and two second-hand Citroens for 1,500,000 francs...
...Uruguayans quietly witnessed a notable change in their country's government last week. Just one year after his inauguration, President Andrés Martínez Trueba stepped down from his high office and took oath as a member of the new nine-man federal council. Thus the "Switzerland of the Americas" became one of the two countries in the world to be governed by an executive council with a rotating chairmanship. (The other: Switzerland.) As its first presiding officer, the council chose a man who had worked hard to persuade Uruguayans to abolish the presidency and adopt...
...Gstaad, Switzerland, 15-year-old Karim Khan, son of Aly Khan, won the junior-class giant slalom race. His prize: the Rita Hayworth cup, first offered three years ago when his father and stepmother visited the course...