Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Switzerland's Jacques LaLive de Piney reported plans for a $7,000,000 reactor (using five tons of uranium, eight tons of heavy water), to be ready...
After graduation, Einstein settled in Switzerland, married Mileva Marie, a Serbian mathematician. With a family to support, he got a job as an examiner in the Swiss Patent Office. But "I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals. I turned aside from everything else." During working hours he would scribble his ideas down on scraps of paper. Evenings, he could be seen wheeling a baby carriage through the streets, halting now and then to jot down rows of mathematical symbols...
Toward Neoliberalism. Lutheran Cullmann, 53, is a great searcher for new meanings himself. Born in Strasbourg, he has occupied the chair of Early Church History and the New Testament at Switzerland's Basel University since 1938. Theologian Cullmann also teaches early Christianity at the Sorbonne, commuting to Paris for two days of lecturing every fortnight. Cullmann stitches busily away at his theological works on trains between Basel, Paris and Rome (soon to be published is his book on the Christology of the New Testament, and also in progress are a French translation of the New Testament, a commentary...
...much of his uncle's example; 2) he had hardly a vestige of his uncle's genius. Of all the Bonapartes, probably none looked so unlike the family hero as Louis, from under whose spiky mustaches the French language emerged in Teutonic gutturals (he was raised in Switzerland...
...succeed him the Shah appointed gentle, scholarly Hussein Ala, who had been Court Minister (liaison between government and palace) in the Zahedi regime. Ala is personally loyal to the Shah. Unfortunately, Ala too is ill, and will have to run off to Switzerland for a prostate operation before assuming his duties...