Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gathering in ,what looked like the biggest harvest since World War II. French hillsides teemed with blue and green grapes that sent the price of wine toppling. In Germany, cattle and hogs were plump and plentiful; in Scandinavia, furrows bulged with a splendid crop of potatoes. Everywhere, except in Switzerland, where the spring frosts were harsh, Western Europe's harvest waxed fat and mellow, promising its people that next winter none need starve...
...past eight years, an Austrian living within sight of Switzerland could phone his Swiss neighbor only by routing his call through Vienna, 300 miles off, so that the censors might listen in. A staff of nearly 1,000 censors stuck their collective noses into letters from Vienna and the Russian zone, and into all telegrams, wireless and Teletype messages going abroad. Worse, the Austrians had to pay the $500,000-a-year cost of all this censorious attention...
...Chris married Mary Caroline Pratt, daughter of a straitlaced, enormously wealthy Standard Oil family, which looked askance at the peripatetic young son-in-law and his artistic family. Not long after the wedding, Chris left his bride and went to Switzerland with a special diplomatic mission to draw up a prisoner-of-war agreement. When the armistice was signed he made a quick reconnaissance of prison camps in Germany, was appalled to find red armbands and symptoms of Communism everywhere. Back in Switzerland he wired a friend from Berlin to come and meet him. "What...
...Neutral Switzerland's Neue Zurcher Zeitung, looking on, decided that "the estrangement presently spreading" might do good if it blew away some of "the tensions accumulated in Europe as a result of a one-sided dependence on-American aid," and if "the exaggerated American expectations regarding the adoption by its partners of its own political concepts will make way for a more realistic view ... All this can have a good effect if the West, at the same time, escapes the dangers involved in any weakening of its inner cohesion in the face of ... imperialist Communism...
Grass for Life. If Kokoschka's students at Salzburg carry away one-tenth of his fiery individualism, he will be happy. This winter he will stay in Switzerland to work on a huge (52½ ft. by 10 ft.) painting of the battle of Thermopylae ("against barbarism, against uniformity") for the University of Hamburg. In the spring he will go to India to paint, and eventually, when he tires of travel, wander back to his London apartment. He has no studio; he likes to paint landscapes out in the open air, portraits at the subject's home...