Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flight 712, from Geneva to London, began routinely one balmy summer's night three weeks ago. Aboard the 40-passenger Swissair Convair there were only five passengers: four Englishwomen and a ten-year-old boy, returning from holidays in Switzerland. Over the English Channel. 35 minutes from flight's end, one engine gave out, then the other coughed and went dead. The plane landed on a calm sea, only a mile from shore, but it carried no lifebelts, jackets or dinghies (required only when a flight is more than 30 minutes over water). Before boats from shore could...
Newsman Daniel went to work for Josephus Daniels' Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer after graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1933, switched in 1937 to the Associated Press in New York, later reported for A.P. in Switzerland and London. He joined the Times staff in 1944, went into Belgium and Germany with the First Army. Now on home leave from Bonn, Cliff Daniel is boning up on Russian history and language before taking over his next...
...while playing a tournament in Switzerland, Drobny and his doubles part ner. Vladimir Czernik. refused to go home when the Czech government told them to bow out because a German and a Spaniard had entered. Life as a stateless tennis amateur was not easy. Drobny moved to Australia, then the U.S., always broke between matches. When a wealthy Egyptian tennis fan offered him a job and a chance to play all the tennis he wanted, Drobny became an Egyptian citizen, ultimately developed his own profitable export business...
...Neutral Switzerland has played host to many of history's most serious international wrangles, but none of them was as chockful of noisy discord as the international meeting which drew to a roaring close last week in Bern's Wankdorf Stadium. Before 55,000 wildly yelling fans, teams from 16 different countries wound up the international competition for the Jules Rimet Cup, the world's highest soccer prize...
...said Tydings, Switzerland has bought $500 million more in U.S. goods than she has sold...