Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarked that the Belgian could only say that because the U.S. ambassador had just left. Goateed Premier Nikolai Bulganin undiplomatically proposed a toast to neutrality, only to have Tito announce bluntly that Yugoslavia was neither neutral nor neutralist, but fiercely independent. Bulganin said lamely he had meant Switzerland...
...French Foreign Legion," he wrote, "offers none of the adventurous romance you dream of. It has bitter experience in store for you. You risk your life. You may come out maimed, or ill, or morally weakened. He who enlists in the Legion brings no honor to Switzerland. Each of us has his troubles, but there are other ways of solving them. Talk to a friend, your teacher, your pastor . . . You will then realize that enlistment in the Legion is an act of cowardice...
...Eden, President Eisenhower and some still unnamed Russian, presumably Premier Bulganin. The time and place of the meeting are still open questions. The Kremlin favors Vienna, where it might expect to make popular capital out of its concessions on the Austrian State Treaty; the West prefers Lausanne in neutral Switzerland, between July...
...stage of the Grand Music Hall of Basel, Switzerland one day last week sat two strange contraptions. One resembled a telephone switchboard with a set of loudspeakers attached. The other looked like a small spinet but was connected to two loudspeakers and a lute-shaped soundbox. The gadgets were known as the "Mixturtrautonium" and the "Ondes Martenot." Both produce more or less musical tones electronically, and they were to be featured soloists in a concert for the delegates to the first International Congress of Electronic Music and Musique Concr...
...prize catch this year: Pianist Artur Rubinstein. Doing the festival rounds even faster than the fleetest-footed music tourist will be a gaggle of other big-name artists. The speed and distance record probably goes to famed German Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who will dash between Scandinavia (Helsinki, Bergen), Switzerland (Lucerne), Belgium (Ostend), France (Aix and Besanqon) and Spain (Granada). Almost as agile will be the U.S.'s own great Philadelphia Orchestra, whose stops will include Lugano, Vienna, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Stockholm, Helsinki...