Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only "four to seven percent of European youth ever reach the university level," he said, as compared to almost 33 percent in America. In Switzerland, he said, those considered qualified for university work, are sent to special university preparatory schools at an age between ten and thirteen...
Still young (23), still beautiful, Joanne flew to Switzerland, looking for new faces, new excitement. There she met sleek Bolivian Tin Heir Jaime Ortiz-Patiño, 25, and her mother urged her to marry him. The night before the wedding in Paris, Joanne rebelled, cried: "You pushed me into this!" Mother won out, and the couple were married in her apartment. Patiño gave his bride $250,000 in jewelry to show his affection, but the marriage was brief. After a 49-day honeymoon on Capri, Joanne disappeared, taking her money and jewels. Jaime found...
...down to die." Patiño in turn denounced her as an adulterous, "worthless" woman who "did everything for money," described her excessive drug-taking, demanded that she return his gifts of jewelry. With Mother on hand, Joanne holed up in a lush but lonely ten-room villa in Switzerland's Jura Mountains and waited for her attorneys to wring a financial settlement from Pati...
Bleak Existence. Switzerland's reliable Neue Zürcher Zeitung two weeks ago reported that Czechoslovakia, whose leaders have resisted liberalization more stubbornly than anyone else in Eastern Europe, is in a state comparable to "that of Poland just before the rising in Poznan." Yet Czechoslovakia, Central Europe's most prosperous nation, has long been regarded as the least revolt-minded of the satellites...
Vacationing in Switzerland with his Queen Soraya, Iran's Shah cabled orders for all-out relief measures as reports trickled out of the devastated area describing the plight of rural survivors, whose perils included not only thirst, disease and famine, but packs of hungry, maddened wolves. The bodies of more than 2,000 Iranians have already been recovered, and aid teams have yet to reach most of the stricken area...