Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three University students from Switzerland recorded their reactions to American education for rebroadcast by the Voice of America in the WHRB studios yesterday. Similar interviews of Swiss undergraduates were held at Yale, Princeton, and Columbia...
...tourist allowances from ?50 to ?25 ($70), saving $35 million. (Continental resorts cried foul. Nearly a million Britons visited France and Switzerland last year; dozens of small hotels on the Riviera may have to close...
...pupil of famed Pianist-Composer Eugene d'Albert, Fischer made his home in Berlin until 1943, when he moved to a small house on Switzerland's Lake Lucerne. Now, when he is not touring Western Europe, he spends his time there gardening or painting. A warm, genial man, he tells visitors: "You don't have to praise the pictures you see here. They are not masterpieces. I painted them myself...
...Hospital in Heidelberg and gave up the practice of medicine. He deserted his profession because he felt that doctors, fascinated by the mechanics of medicine, were losing sight of their patients as individuals. To get a better perspective, Picard studied philosophy, finally moved to the tiny village of Caslano, Switzerland. Now 63, he has lived there ever since, quietly writing and studying, in a one-man effort to diagnose the spiritual troubles of modern times...
...always been his custom to order his post-mortem forms in batches of 500. Toward the end of 1947, he ordered only 100. When he had used most of them, he wrote to a colleague in Switzerland saying that he refused to "linger on to become a burden to others." The week before Christmas, he filled out the last of the forms and put it in the mailbox. He informed his garage staff that he would not be seeing them over the New Year, and gave them their Christmas presents. That night he was found dead in his laboratory, beside...