Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprise, but once the haze of off-the-cuff interpretations cleared away, the move seemed logical, the motives obvious. On Nov. 3, the Kremlin had issued a heavy-handed note harshly spurning a U.S.-British-French 'proposal for a Big Four foreign-ministers' meeting in Lugano, Switzerland. That note, apparently drafted by underlings in Foreign Minister Molotov's absence, was patently a blunder. Its truculence "shocked the world," as the U.S. State Department put it; any neutralist could plainly see that the Russians did not want to reach agreement with the West...
...July 1946, Glasser attended the UNRRA conference in Geneva, Switzerland, as a member of the United States delegation. In January
Married. Jacques Piccard, 31, Swiss deep-sea diver, who, with his famed father, Auguste Piccard, descended to a record 10,330 feet in a steel "bathyscaphe" into the Tyrrhenian Sea (TIME, Oct. 12); and Mary Claude Maillard, 24, a piano teacher; in Lausanne, Switzerland...
...evening early in the week, ambassadors of the three Western powers were summoned to the Moscow Foreign Ministry. Each got an 18-page diplomatic note. It was Russia's answer to their proposal for a four-power ministers' conference at Lugano, Switzerland. The Russians did not even reply to the Lugano invitation, but made it clear that Moscow had reverted to-if it ever really slid away from-the truculent line of Stalin's last year...
Nonetheless, his heavy-handed novel has sold 400,000 copies in France, Belgium and Switzerland. It has been translated into German, Italian and Swedish, and Spanish, Danish and Dutch editions are being prepared. As the U.S. edition appears. European sales have pushed close to 1,000,000 and are going strong...