Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Common Market mechanism be broadened to include political consultation. Greece, Turkey and Spain are clamoring to join the Common Market. As a pallid substitute of the Free Trade Area that it once demanded, Britain is forming its own economic league, an Outer Seven, bringing Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal into a loose tariff agreement. But the British, who privately admit that the Outer Seven is a patchwork job, now describe it as "a pier from which we can build a bridge with the Common Market." It promises to be no more than that...
...will in fact seem preposterous to anyone who has ever done 50 honest feet of Felskletterei. But to the average tree shinnier, for whom this picture is intended, they will surely look authentic and awesome. For the rest, the scenery (Matterhorn, Riffelhorn, Monte Rosa) is as spectacular as any Switzerland can show, and Hero MacArthur, in real life the son of Actress Helen Hayes, is the most wholesome-looking juvenile since...
JOHN L. SUTER Basel, Switzerland...
...Europe did not tremble. The four pint-sized countries-Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino and Andorra-have a combined population of 63,300, and their total armed forces would be insufficient to police Dubuque, Iowa. They were meeting in Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein, nestled in the Alps between Switzerland and Austria, to advance "the cause of peace by working for more tourism." This project, neatly combining idealism with the hope for profit, came from the teeming brain of Baron Edward von Falz-Fein, 47, a loyal Liechtensteiner of Ukrainian origin and the leading entrepreneur of Vaduz. He runs three tourist...
...truly shattered. This may be because an ex-wife gallantly bails him out with a $1,000,000 gift. At book's end, Craig broods, in italics: "How very rich he'd be if he owned anything except the million dollars waiting for him in Switzerland...