Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Guatemala's Red-lining ex-President Jacobo Arbenz has never visited Switzerland, many a tie links him to that tight little European democracy. He is of Swiss descent on his father's side and still has relatives there. He chose Swiss banks to hold the plunder, reportedly $6,000,000, that came into his hands while he was President. And it was in Zurich that an Arbenz henchman last year negotiated the purchase of $10 million worth of Communist arms. If the President who almost delivered Guatemala to the Reds now wanted to visit Moscow headquarters...
...relatives Arbenz will doubtless see in Switzerland is his father's well-to-do brother Ernst Arbenz, and Ernst may talk to him like a Swiss uncle. A blind cheesemaker of Alstatten ("One doesn't have to be able to see to put the holes in cheese"), Ernst told reporters last week that he had written his nephew a letter of advice a few months before the President fell from power. "I told him he should shake off his Communist advisers," Ernst recalled. "But either he got annoyed or his Communist friends intercepted the letter, because neither...
Trouble at Four. Born into a cultivated music-teacher's family near Bern, Switzerland, Klee thought of making music his profession. He chose painting instead, simply "because it seemed to be lagging behind," and undertook rigorous formal training. Klee's chief means of advancing art was to let his unconscious whisper through his brush. At four, he would rush to his mother for protection from the "evil spirits" that appeared on his drawing paper. With age, he came to feel at home in his dream world of huge, dim forces, and was able to say, with none...
...doctors, Gastroenterologist Antonio Gasbarrini and Surgeon Raffaele Paolucci di Valmaggiore. No, said Chief Papal Physician Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi, the Pope is too old (nearing 79) and not strong enough, and he would be too upset by the inability to carry on his duties. That was also the view of Switzerland's unorthodox Dr. Paul Niehans (TIME, Sept. 13). So the doctors decided to continue doing all that they could to cut down the acidity of the Pope's stomach, and increase his feedings to build up his strength. By week's end they...
Died. Hugh Gibson, 71, veteran career diplomat, ranking spokesman (as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium and Minister to Poland and Switzerland) for American policy in Europe during the 1920s and early 1930s, director of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration; of coronary embolism; in Geneva...