Word: switzerland
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Died. Henri J. Revilliod, 83, physician, longtime president of Switzerland's Moral and Social Hygiene Cartel, founder of dispensaries for the treatment of alcoholism in Montreux and Geneva, son-in-law of Czechoslovakia's late great founder and first President, Thomas G. Masaryk, brother-in-law of the late Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk; in Manhattan...
Professor Allegro's discovery of evidence in the Dead Sea Scrolls that Christ had a forerunner [Feb. 6] corroborates a lecture on the Gospel of St. Matthew that was given at Bern, Switzerland way back in 1910 by a highly independent German thinker named Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). The question of how Steiner was able to create a theory in clear accord with documentary evidence that was still underground is intriguing...
Prepaid Junkets. Shipowner Niarchos seldom visits his 48 ships or his worldwide string of companies, keeps his office under his hat. He is a familiar figure in England, where he stables his string of race horses. In Switzerland, where he spends several weeks a year, he is known as an expert skier. On two continents he is known as a knowledgeable art collector; he recently paid $300,000 for El Greco's Pietà. On the Riviera, Niarchos keeps a fleet of sports cars, to shuttle between his two Cap d'Antibes palaces, and two yachts: the black...
...unofficial team scores put Russia's first Winter Olympics team well on its way to its first Olympic championship. Scores: Russia 60, Austria (with a first, second, third and sixth in the men's giant slalom) 29, Finland 15, Italy 15, Sweden 14, Germany 10, Switzerland...
...fifteen points gained by Tenley and Miss Heiss placed the U.S. ahead of Switzerland with 44 points and within one half point of fifth place Austria...