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Word: switzerland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barnes went back to law school and then to the University of Geneva for post-graduate work. (He received a Doctorate from Geneva in 1957.) At Geneva he became interested in the relation between law and international affairs, a field generally known as comparative law. After his studies in Switzerland, he worked at the University of Michigan as a research associate in comparative law before returning to Harvard ten years...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Man Around the Campus | 10/23/1959 | See Source »

...blue police Volkswagen bus pulled up in front of the courthouse in Winterthur, Switzerland one day last week, a ripple of anticipation ran through the waiting crowd. "Here he comes," yelled a photographer-and out stepped a curly-haired Englishman, bound for the most sensational trial Switzerland had seen in years. But the prisoner's names -Donald Hume alias Donald Brown alias John Stephen Bird-were not on the tips of Swiss tongues alone. In Britain, Hume is Scotland Yard's most notorious enemy -and just about the slipperiest the Yard has ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: The Slippery One | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...only 12% of the German movies now in circulation, but its annual gross ($35,850,000) comes to 30% of the income from German film production. Kuba herself boasts a villa on Lake Starnberg with two cabin cruisers and a speedboat, a villa on the Riviera, a chalet in Switzerland, a stable of expensive cars, a Skye terrier named Putzi and a black poodle named Wutzi. It is all confirmation of her own straightforward formula for success: "All I want to see in my movies is what I enjoy seeing myself-a pretty girl, a handsome man, a little dancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES ABROAD: A Tycoon Named Use | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...young poet of the day, heir to a baronetcy and already married and a father. At 19 she wrote one of the great horror stories of all time, Frankenstein. For eight years the young couple-married after the suicide of the poet's first wife-skittered across France, Switzerland and Italy, keeping company with the brightest minds and most advanced spirits of English letters. When the poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, died in a storm at sea at 29, his friends held a cremation ceremony on the beach, and one of them snatched the young heart from the flames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mrs. Shelley Plain | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Died. Bohuslav Martinu, 68, Czech composer and onetime visiting professor of composition at Princeton, who turned out a flood of operas (The Miracle of Our Lady), symphonies (Fantaisies Symphoniques) and chamber music, saw one of his operas (The Marriage) become a U.S. TV hit; near Basel, Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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