Word: switzerland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Marcel Pilet-Golaz, 68, twice (1934, 1940) President of Switzerland, dapper "Anthony Eden of Swiss politics," who resigned as Foreign Minister in 1944 because of criticism for his handling of Soviet relations; of a heart attack; in Paris...
...determine whether the imports are really a danger. G.E. was doubly pleased. Just after ODM acted, G.E. was listed as the apparent low bidder for seven big electric generators at the Oahe Dam on the Missouri River near Pierre, S. Dak. When bids were first opened three months ago, Switzerland's Brown, Boveri was the low bidder at $9,502,895. But the Government threw out all the bids because they did not fit specifications and called for new ones. On these, G.E. was low bidder...
...four delegates flew to Nice-but the next thing France knew, they had flown via Switzerland to Egypt to confer with France's archenemy. President Nasser. Last week, having dropped out of sight for 2% months, they arrived in Morocco to swear allegiance to Mohammed...
...Britain to declare a unilateral test ban of its own. In St. Louis, Washington University's left-leaning Physicist Edward U. Condon predicted that because of radioactive fallout from tests "many thousands of persons in the world will suffer agonizing death from bone cancer and leukemia." In Lausanne, Switzerland, by contrast, a nine-nation scientific-medical conference on bomb-test hazards announced the finding that fallout radioactivity "has no practical importance compared with natural radiation [and does not] constitute a danger to the health of mankind...
...Belfort, near the Swiss border, he gave sanctuary to another hunted man. Si Ali Lahouedi, a student sought by the French police as a member of Algeria's Front de Liberation National. After hiding Si Ali in his house for weeks, Pastor Mathiot drove the fugitive to Switzerland. French police arrested the minister shortly after his return, charged him with treason. The trial stirred all France, showed clearly that many French Christians-Protestant and Catholic-are deeply troubled by their country's part in the Algerian...