Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support, tiny, barren Jordan would become a fifth-rate country, easy prey for a powerful neighbor. The London Observer reported that Talal had recently signed a document assuring Britain that he would carry on his father's policies. When his plane stopped in Athens on the way from Switzerland, Talal told reporters he would continue "the same old friendly relations" his father had with the British...
Died. Dr. Serge Voronoff, 85, Russian-born surgeon and scientist, who became famous in the '20s as "the monkey-gland man," because of his operations for rejuvenation by the transplanting of testicles and thyroid glands; after a brief illness; at Lausanne, Switzerland...
Emir Tallal (40), heir apparent to King Abdullah, now a psychiatric patient in a clinic at Prangins near Geneva, while his brother Emir Naif acts as regent. Was packed off to Switzerland after several violent seizures, usually at cocktail parties, during which he fell on innocent bystanders-mostly British officers. Hates the British and the West...
...told Sergeant LoDolce that the trigger-happy Communists were losing patience with the mission. If it were not for the major, the mission could forget about politics, start sending back vital military information and getting weapons that would save thousands of American lives. Icardi spoke of sending Holohan "to Switzerland without his shoes"-a partisan expression meaning to kill...
Died. Artur Schnabel, 69, composer-pianist, best known for his performances of Beethoven (his favorite), Schubert and Mozart; of a heart ailment; in Axenstein, Switzerland. A boy prodigy in Austria, Schnabel took lessons for seven years, but always hated to practice. In 1921, at his first U.S. concert, he defied his managers, dismayed the audience and pleased the critics by playing two solid hours of Beethoven. In later years, Schnabel (who became a U.S. citizen during World War II) took more pride in his atonal Schoenbergian compositions than in his playing. A pun-making perfectionist, Schnabel refused to play encores...