Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Davis Cup tennis teams from Switzerland, The Netherlands, West Germany, Brazil, the second round of the European Zone finals...
...being broadcast in the U.S. by ECA to promote both the tourist industry and international good will. Concert features Actor Claude (The Happy Time) Dauphin as M.C., a French orchestra of impressive musicianship and a new conductor each week from one of the 18 Marshall Plan countries. The first: Switzerland's Otto Osterwalder...
Died. Mrs. James Joyce (Nora Barnacle), 65, longtime confidante and literary midwife to her famed author husband; of a heart attack; in Zurich, Switzerland, where Joyce died ten years ago. A practical woman, she helped him settle down and get his work done, sighed after reading Ulysses: "I guess the man's a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, surely!" After he reached success and died, she long endured a genteel poverty, unwilling to live in England, unable to get more than a fraction of his royalties out of the country...
Besides some 600 courses, Smith also offers the undergraduate student the Junior Year Abroad, a plan innovated in 1935 allowing students to study one year abroad for credit. Where possible, students live with families. Currently, Smith has Junior Year groups in France, Switzerland, Italy, and Mexico. An international studies program in Geneva...
Died. Countess Ida Coudenhove-Kalergi, fiftyish, onetime Viennese actress, longtime collaborator with her Austrian-Japanese husband, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, in his career as the founder and most articulate advocate of the Pan-European Union, designed to combat nationalism and prevent war; of a heart attack; in Nyon, Switzerland...