Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Byrd Mass was followed by two suites for strings and continue, one by the 17th century English composer John Jenkins and the other by Francois Couperin. The pleasing, simply-constructed movements of the Jenkins were given a graceful rendition by Anne Gombosi, violin; August Wenzinger, a visiting lecturer from Switzerland; Stephen McGhee, viola da gamba and John Dvison, harpsichord. But the Couperin is quite a notch above the Jenkins musically, and Mr. Wenzinger's virtuoso performance further augmented the excellent impression it made. Because of the elaborate ornamental conventions of the period in which it was written, a great part...
...rejected Switzerland as a suitable neutral custodian, apparently on no other ground than that the U.N.'s espousal of Switzerland ("a neutral status," Harrison said, "which is obviously unsurpassed") rendered that country unacceptable to the Reds...
Died. Nicholas ("Nicky the Greek") Zographos,* 66, famed as the world's greatest professional gambler; of cancer; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Jockey-sized Card Ace Zographos, who entertained royalty on his yacht, ran baccarat banks at Cannes in the winter and at Deauville in summer. Win or lose, Zographos played it deadpan. Once, the wife of an automobile tycoon reportedly held his hand while he dropped a small fortune at baccarat. His hand, she remarked, did not tremble. "No," said he, "but I turn somersaults when I go to bed at night...
Since the Communists say that they are now willing to turn over to neutral custody any war prisoners unwilling to accept repatriation, General Harrison suggested that Switzerland would qualify nicely as such a neutral. Harrison also proposed that: 1) to save the trouble and expense of transportation, the neutral custodian could take over its charges in Korea, and 2) a period of 60 days might be allowed to the neutral custodian for assessing the wishes of the prisoners it holds. Harrison's letter closed with a clear warning that another bout of Red stalling and filibustering would be answered...
Going Nowhere. Dada got its start in Zurich, Switzerland during World War I with a group of rebellious young artists who thought the world was going nowhere. They were tired of war, booms and depressions, had no faith in religion and despised the self-conscious modern art of the cubists and futurists. As a protest, they made up their minds to be as disorderly as possible, and defiantly named their movement by simply plunging a knife into a French dictionary. The knife point came to rest at a wildly appropriate word: "Dada," the French word for hobbyhorse...