Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time Dwight Eisenhower stepped off the Columbine in Geneva, 18 hours later, the people of the U.S. were already beginning to say special prayers for the success of his mission. As Switzerland's President Max Petitpierre welcomed him to the glistening city of the Parley at the Summit (see FOREIGN NEWS), Ike recalled an earlier and different mission to Europe. "Some eleven years ago," he said, "I came to Europe with an army, a navy, an air force, with a single purpose: to destroy Naziism . . . This time I come armed with something far more powerful: the good will...
...young men while away their time, expertly assess the jewels on neighboring matrons and debate whether to offer their services as escorts. Sauntering by in an endless stream are pretty, dark girls with swelling bosoms and swelling hopes of catching a producer's eye, gawking tourists from Germany, Switzerland or the U.S., or uninhibited Italian families who stop to stare, and sometimes guffaw...
From Manila last week, three Douglas C-118 transports and 18 men of the U.S. Air Force took off on a 57-day, 11,000-mile trip to Geneva, Switzerland. The C-118s had gone all the way from McGuire Air Force Base, N.J. to pick up 192 touring delegates of Moral Re-Armament (only 55 of them Americans) and ferry them slowly around Asia and the Middle East, winding up next September in Geneva...
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Though he started teaching at Caltech in 1927, Dr. Zwicky is a citizen of Switzerland, and he refuses to take out U.S. naturalization papers. Naturalized citizens of the U.S., he insists, are second-class citizens, subject to special rules, e.g., their citizenship can be taken away for various reasons, such as staying out of the country for more than two years. "I would apply for American citizenship tomorrow," says Zwicky, "if you did not have two classes of citizens. If I am more free as a Swiss, I stay Swiss...