Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which has leaped in value to $14,000. Big investors also flock to the funds: such schools as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Oklahoma, and Texas Christian University have invested part of their endowments. The funds have been copied abroad in Great Britain, West Germany, Switzerland, Mexico. Ten years ago, most people had never heard of mutual funds; now, the term is a household word...
Briefly, his commitment is to find moral and, more especially, monetary support for Algerian students, who have been chased from the University of Algiers, deprived of French Government scholarships in France, persecuted, arrested, and forced underground. The Student Union headquarters is now in Lausanne, Switzerland. Its proselytizing leaders are totally dependent upon NSA, WUS, and other student organization funds. This has been the case since 1954, when the Algerian student community declared its unanimous support of the nationalist insurrection...
...semi-retirement and self-exile in Switzerland, Comedian Charlie Chaplin, 70 last month, let it be known that he and wife Oona, 34, expect their seventh child in November...
...Nuit) Morand. At 70 he was suitably ancient, with his Scott Fitzgeraldish novels of the '20s had more claim to literary distinction than many of the "immortals" already in the academy. But he had also been Pétain's envoy, first to Rumania, then to Switzerland...
Along a corridor of the lush Cecil Clinic in Lausanne, Switzerland, paced Prince Rainier, furrow-browed. He need not have worried. In less than 30 minutes Monaco's radiant Princess Grace was wheeled in and out of the operating room, where Philadelphia Surgeon James Lehman snipped out her mildly inflamed appendix, then happily pronounced Her Serene Highness "in first-class shape...