Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prince Sadruddin (Sadri) Khan, 24, younger son of the late Aga Khan III (and his third wife, Andrée Carron), uncle of the new Aga Khan IV; and Nina Sheila Dyer, 27, onetime London fashion model; he for the first time, she for the second; in Collonge-Bellerive, Switzerland...
...vice chairman and longtime (1919-22, 1932-45) official of the American Red Cross, Marshall Plan mission chief of Yugoslavia (1951-52), U.S. foreign-relief program administrator (1947-48), general manager of Manhattan's men's haberdashers Rogers Peet Co. (1923-31); after long illness; in Geneva, Switzerland...
...girl was a slender French blonde, and only 16. That summer of 1910, when the mornings were warm and clear, she would go down to the shores of Lake Annecy in the French Upper Savoy near Switzerland. With her was a bearded painter from Paris named Paul Chabas. At 8:30 a.m. she would slip out of her clothes and step into the chill water. The first time, she drew her body into an instinctive pose of protection against the cold. "Don't move!" cried the enchanted painter...
...youth Ghazan was trained by a mullah in the tenets of Mohammedanism, but at 15 he was sent to school in Switzerland; now he tries to give his people the best of both worlds, only to find-like so many other men of good will in the East-that such an attempt can easily lead to tragedy. When Ghazan gets wind of the fact that the Persian army is planning once again to resettle his people, he leads them into the uplands for the summer, and they resume their way of life-shearing their sheep, weaving cloth and dazzling-colored...
...alone in his 15-room house near by. His first marriage to once-divorced Anneliese Bahr, daughter of a prominent manufacturer, ended after four years in 1941, when his father, who had opposed the marriage, threatened to disinherit him. The son by the marriage, Arndt, 19, is studying in Switzerland, is expected to succeed his father as head of Krupp (though Alfried can designate any Krupp he wishes). After his release from prison, Alfried married thrice-divorced Vera von Hossenfeldt, a longtime friend who had lived in the U.S. during the war. Vera described Alfried as "the only...