Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joanovici was reported seen in Germany, Switzerland, Egypt. But he turned up in Haifa, Israel, in a small group of Jewish refugees arriving by plane from Morocco. He gave his name as Joseph Levy. "All ten of the passengers on the plane had passports in the name of Joseph Levy," he adds with a grin...
...future power reactors. It is building the largest U.S. all-nuclear power station (cost: more than $45 million) at Dresden, Ohio for Commonwealth Edison of Chicago, and a $19.5 million reactor at Eureka, Calif, for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., has been selected to construct nuclear power stations in Switzerland, West Germany and Italy...
...birth of his four younger children in England (he has a total of eight children by three wives) to take advantage of the National Health Service. One of Scherchen's passions away from the podium is experimenting with "everything that conserves sound"; at his home at Gravesano, Switzerland, he has built what he regards as "the most advanced electracoustically experimental studios in the world." Recently he has developed a "stereophoner," an electronic device that gives the illusion of stereophonic sound to monaural recordings. Technology, rather than talent, Scherchen believes, will determine the music of the future. Says...
...that it has leased from Pan American. National leased eight other planes from such faraway carriers as Hawaiian Airlines, put employees on six-and seven-day weeks. National's President George ("Ted") Baker found the pressure so bad that he took off for three weeks' rest in Switzerland...
...Giovanni Iviglia. Twenty years ago, an exhibition of old-master violins was held in Cremona, and of the 2,000 which Expert Iviglia now says were offered from all parts of the world, only 40 proved to be genuine. Believing that the center of a fake violin trade was Switzerland, Iviglia, with the blessings of the Italian government, set up an "Advisory Bureau for Purchasers and Owners of Italian String Instruments" in Zurich...