Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When their song was over, the three stars reluctantly moved out of conjunction. Fournier will fly to Switzerland, then on to a Scandinavian tour; Solomon heads for performances in South Africa, Israel and the Continent, Francescatti for a four-month rest in the Berkshires. Could they ever get together again? Possibly their schedules will permit...
...discovery of the yarn was a fluke. During World War II Switzerland's Heberlein and Co., and France's Billion et Cie. were trying to find a way to make ersatz wool. They failed to do so, but in the process made a nylon yarn that would stretch. In the Heberlein method, fibers are twisted, and the twist is set by heat, a sort of permanent-wave process. Then the fibers are broken down into single filaments, and those with a right-hand twist are plaited with others with a left-hand twist. The result is a soft...
Steiger, 54, a blunt bundle of energy, is Switzerland's No. 1 architect. Last week he and his partner-son, Peter Steiger, were busy checking blueprints for a mammoth Steiger-designed atomic laboratory near Geneva. Commissioned by the twelve-nation European Council for Nuclear Research, the laboratory will cover 90 acres, will incorporate such new-age elements as a synchrocyclotron and a 25 billion electron-volt proton-synchrotron (TIME...
When he completes his present job, Steiger will plunge into an even more challenging assignment: building Switzerland's first "atomic city" in Zurich Canton. The project calls for a power-reactor plant surrounded by factories, and a complete town for the personnel. "If it works," Steiger says briskly, "I hope it will show that the architect can have a big, responsible position in the atomic...
...visited the Soviet zone of Germany and was lionized there, wrote a letter of praise for an old friend, now a Soviet literary commissar, and finally settled near Zurich, Switzerland...