Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet to discuss issues and methods of arriving at solutions. Later the foreign ministers and their aides would deal in detail with the points outlined during the top-level meeting. On the first question to be decided, the place of meeting, the ministers promptly encountered a difference. Dulles proposed Switzerland; Molotov suggested Vienna. A decision was deferred...
...Britain, Germany and The Netherlands, higher wages and improved living conditions are now providing a strong inducement for workers to stay at home. In France and Switzerland the governments forbade immigration agents to advertise or hold public meetings to make their pitch. Hard-luck stories from recent emigrants had their effect even in overcrowded Italy, which has sent one-third fewer settlers to Canada this year than last...
FIRST NUCLEAR REACTOR to be sent abroad by the U.S. will be sold to Switzerland this August. The U.S. will set up a small experimental "swimming pool" reactor, i.e., one immersed in water as both shield and coolant, rated at 10 kw., in Geneva to demonstrate the peacetime uses of atomic energy before a United Nations conference, then let Switzerland have the reactor, plus 55 Ibs. of nuclear material, when the meeting is over...
Wotruba went into exile in Switzerland in 1939, remained there during the war years, which, he now feels, he spent largely "accumulating powers, as in a reservoir, so they could be used later." Back in Vienna after war's end, Wotruba became director of the sculpture school at Austria's Academy of Fine Arts, in 1952 had a one-man show at the Venice Biennale. To his students Wotruba insists: "The artist must answer the question-why do I live? This provokes the answer: art is an attempt to justify human existence. Whether it's beautiful...
Both group travel and package tours are booming. Stenographers, farmers, mountain climbers are banding together to book their own special excursions. In Manhattan 25 photographers will take off in July for a 30-day picture-taking swing through Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland, five other countries; a group of 100 congressional secretaries will sail in midsummer to escape Washington's heat. Last December American Express offered 19 Banner Tours to Europe (42 days for $1,225 to $1,645), sold them out by February, had to add more to meet the demand. Its de luxe student tours (54 days...