Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of Franco's own family. Though details were carefully concealed from the public, the roundup was the climax of the most sensational financial scandal in the history of the regime. The crime common to all: setting up secret accounts overseas, mounting to at least $280 million in Switzerland and to millions more in banks elsewhere...
...shock was not confined to Spain alone. Last week Franco's police arrested two Swiss bankers, one of whom is Joseph Rivera, Geneva director of the Société de Banque Suisse, the other a top, unnamed official of the Union de Banques Suisse. For Switzerland, whose banks have for so long prospered in peace or war (other people's wars) on the secret accounts of the high and mighty, Franco's arrest of Swiss bankers was a rude and unexpected blow. Said an official of Société de Banque Suisse: "We are taking...
...Here & Now." Spontaneously and almost simultaneously, Psychiatrists Eugène Minkowski in Paris, Erwin W. Straus (now settled in Lexington. Ky.), Baron Viktor von Gebsattel and Karl Jaspers in Germany and Ludwig Binswanger in Switzerland began applying what are now rated as phenomenological and existential principles to psychiatry. The influence spread from these elders to young psychiatrists in training. Binswanger and others named their method Daseinsanalyse, from Heidegger's term for existence, Dasein (translated as "being here and now"). The new approach was not formalized in a new school, designed to supplant earlier "depth psychology" methods, but permeated many...
Fate Accompli. In Southampton, England, 21-year-old Pakhar Singh told army recruiters that he had hitchhiked 12,000 miles from Malaya through India, Afghanistan, Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, Switzerland and France to join the British army because he wanted "to see the world...
Aleman sent López Mateos off to international conferences in Washington (where he developed a taste for U.S. cheesecake from Duke Zeibert's Restaurant), Argentina and Switzerland, and appointed him Ambassador to Costa Rica. Moving higher in government circles, he met a top bureaucrat named Adolfo Ruiz Cortines. Soon the two Adolfos were taking long and friendly walks through the city at night. When Ruiz Cortines was nominated as P.R.I.'s presidential candidate in 1951, he got López Mateos to manage his campaign. López Mateos did so well that on inauguration...