Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ailing King of Nepal, Makarajadhiraja Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur, 48, who with a name like that deserves to have (and has) two Queens, got official word that he will be welcome in the U.S. Polygamist Tribhubana, in Switzerland for repairs on his heart, had earlier mentioned that he might go to the U.S. for further treatment. A Zurich busybody started an international ruckus by warning a royal aide that U.S. immigration laws would prevent the King and his wives from so much as getting off the boat. After a chorus of hospitable noises arose from the U.S. State Department...
...eyes set behind steel-rimmed spectacles. Most of his ruddy face was retired behind a clipped, white, patriarchal beard that gave him a bristled, Neptunian look. His leg muscles could have been halves of a split 16-lb. shot, welded there by years of tramping in Michigan, skiing in Switzerland, bullfighting in Spain, walking battlefronts and hiking uncounted miles of African safari. On his lap he held a board, and he bent over it with a pencil in one hand. He was still whittling away at his walnut prose...
...they have been getting phone calls, letters and orders for the panels (price: 5,600 lire, or $9). The Italian government's Health Department has installed some 120 in hospital chapel confessionals. Rome's Pontifical Canadian College has ordered 30. Orders have streamed in from Germany and Switzerland. Said one priest from the Abruzzi mountains: "This gadget is a godsend-especially when one's parishioners, like mine, feast upon onions and garlic...
Among all the confusing participants in the cold war, no family can match the American family Field. Noel Haviland Field was a wanderer among nations and ideas. Born in London, brought up in Switzerland, educated at Harvard, he worked for the State Department in Washington, for the League of Nations in Geneva, for the OSS in wartime Europe, for the Unitarian Service Committee in France. After the war, he and his brother Hermann sauntered through the Iron Curtain countries like welcome guests. Whittaker Chambers said Noel was a friend of Alger Hiss and a Communist agent; the Communists said...
Other new records: Bartok: Piano Concertos No. 2 & No. 3 (Edith Farnadi; Vienna State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Hermann Scherchen; Westminster). Hungary's late composer Bartok was happily teaching in Switzerland in 1931 when he set down the slashing, almost barbaric strains of No. 2. He was still 18 bars from the end of No. 3, a comparatively serene but equally intricate work, when he died in 1945 in Manhattan. Both pieces here get superior readings and recordings...