Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people narrowly voted out the monarchy and voted in a republic. She was raised in exile in a seaside villa at Cascais in Portugal, and, when she was 17, she took leave of her dethroned father and her English governess to join her mother, Queen Marie José, in Switzerland and attend Geneva University...
...throne ("He was made for her," sighed the weekly Epoca. "Six feet tall with wavy blond hair and blue eyes full of melancholy"), and with Britain's sportive Duke of Kent. The princess said nothing about either of the young men, went quietly back to her studies in Switzerland...
...last U.S. reporter to leave the Nazi capital-aboard a train to Switzerland on Dec. 6. 1941. His book. Last Train from Berlin, was a bestseller in England and the U.S. (While still a political liberal, Smith is now embarrassed by some of the positions he took in the book, e.g., a statement that "Russia looked better the longer I stayed and the more I saw.") He replaced Edward R. Murrow in 1946 as CBS's chief European correspondent, was brought to the U.S. in 1957. Sig Mickelson, CBS vice president and news manager, calls Smith "the intellectual dean...
...woman skiers offered notable competition for the talented European girls. But last week in the Austrian town of Kitzbühel, ski buffs were talking enthusiastically about a pair of pretty 20-year-olds from New England who have set the skiing fraternity on its ear. At Grindelwald, Switzerland, the week before, Penny Pitou had won the downhill and combined championships, and Betsy Snite had taken the giant slalom, finished second to Penny in the downhill. Bubbled Betsy: "We came to Kitzbühel to find ourselves famous, and I'm not sure I like that. We ski better...
...Grindelwald, Switzerland, two U.S. girls startled Europe's best skiers, gave an unexpected boost to U.S. chances for the 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley, Calif. New Hampshire's Penny Pitou, 20, swooped down, won both the downhill and combined championships. Vermonter Betsy Snite, 20, won the giant slalom, finished second in the downhill and twelfth in the combined...