Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Dr. Charles Evans, climbed to within 300 feet of Mt. Everest's peak before being turned back by bad weather and lack of oxygen, three days before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey made it to the top; in a fall while climbing Ausserberg in southern Switzerland...
...world," consisting of representatives from England, India, and Switzerland, looked at America last night through three rather benign pairs of eyes in the final event in the "Series of Special Events in the Arts...
...Chambord and London's Mirabelle. Wherever he goes, he is dogged by daily packets containing interoffice memos and notes from his staff. When he wants to discuss a project with an associate, Niarchos summons the man to his side, once kept staffers shuttling to and from Switzerland for three months while he recovered from a skiing accident...
Henry Kissinger, director of the International Seminar, will serve as moderator of the discussion. Speakers will be Bangalore Kuppuswamy, professor at the University of Mysore, India; Eric Mettler, chief London correspondent on Neue Zuricher Zeitung, Switzerland; and William Ross, British...
...born in Italy, the son of an English soprano and an Italian tenor, picked up an education in Switzerland and Portugal, became a British subject and a proper young businessman. But not for long. As soon as he could read, he had begun to devour history, and one day he left his proper job for the happier one of cranking out historical novels. Quote the opening line of one of his most famous ones-"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad"-and thousands of readers now living will know that...