Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficulties were not over. He offered cabinet posts to the leaders of Neo-Destour, Tunisia's clandestine but powerful nationalist party. Most of the leaders are in exile or cooped up in French jails, but six hurried to Switzerland to confer. They talked by phone with their exiled leader, Habib Bourguiba, 51, now a "guest" of the French in a villa near Paris. Bourguiba counseled "accept...
Halfway House. Churchill was insistent, and the Cabinet finally gave grudging assent to Churchill's meeting Malenkov at some halfway house such as Switzerland, Sweden or Germany. The Russians, secretly sounded out at Geneva, seemed interested. Within a few days the answer came back from Molotov. Of course, Malenkov was willing to meet Churchill-but he would meet him only in Russia...
...after the backbreaking scramble to Briangon, the last laps across the Vosges Mountains and the black roads of the North Country all seemed downhill. At week's end, Bobet pedaled into Paris' Pare des Princes, a comfortable 15 min., 49 sec. ahead of Switzerland's Kubler. Third man in the Tour's history to win twice running, Bobet earned $28,500 in prize money, an estimated $43,000 in extras and France's heartfelt bravo...
POWER NETWORK to serve Western Europe from plants in the Austrian Alps is moving from dream to planning stage. Representatives from Austria, West Germany, France and Italy are now meeting in Switzerland to work out details for hydroelectric plants, with an annual 4.7 billion kw.-h. output, to cost $570 million over a 20-year period...
...Eisenhower to reject the Tariff Commission's recommendation, pointing out that the importation of Swiss movements created "substantial subsidiary employment" in the U.S. (about 15,000 workers make cases and straps, assemble watches, etc.). The American Farm Bureau Federation also asked Eisenhower to reject the tariff increase because Switzerland buys $11 per capita in U.S. farm products...