Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Hélène Marianne Bresslau Schweitzer, 79, wife (since 1912) of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, famed Alsatian-born medical missionary and Nobel Peace Prizewinner; in Zurich, Switzerland...
Financial Shenanigans. But not even the Swiss deny that secrecy has sheltered some fancy financial shenanigans. Egypt reportedly financed arms deals through Swiss banks. Each year the Soviet Union ships about $100 million worth of gold to Switzerland, presumably to finance such undercover operations as its spying and propaganda network in the West, trade deals to get around the embargo on strategic goods. Such ousted rulers as Egypt's Farouk, ex-President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala and Argentina's ousted Dictator Juan Perón keep fortunes in Swiss banks all presumably pilfered from public funds. But sometimes...
Born. To Charles Spencer (Charlie) Chaplin, 68, and fourth wife Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 32, daughter of the late Playwright Eugene O'Neill: a fourth daughter, sixth child (his tenth); in Lausanne, Switzerland. Name: Jane. Weight...
...Detroit Adoration, a medium-sized (23¾ in. by 18½ in.) painting, had long been in the possession of an old Roman family. Eventually it made its way to Switzerland, arrived in the U.S. seven or eight years ago. Detroit Director Edgar P. Richardson believed in the authenticity of the painting "from the first time I saw it," and persuaded a group of Detroit art patrons to chip in and buy it. Price: an estimated...
Berman is in Europe on a sabbatical leave to continue work he has been doing for several years on the structure of Soviet and East European trade. From his home base at Geneva, Switzerland, he has taken trips to Yugoslavia and France, before going to Russia several weeks ago. In Moscow, Berman has conferred with several Ministry of Justice officials...