Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dudley Richards, Crimson figure skating ace who now holds Harvard's sole claim to amateur honors since Dick Button turned pro, has been named as a U.S. representative at the world figure skating championships in Switzerland. February...
Charlie Chaplin and family prepared to live in Switzerland for a while. In the mountain village of Corsier-sur-Vevey overlooking Lake Geneva, Chaplin paid $200,000 for a 13-room manor, paid another $93,000 to fill it with rented furniture for six months...
Last fortnight he was in Innsbruck, Austria, lecturing to students on writing. A few days later he was in Munich, followed by a train of young people. A few days after that, he was in Switzerland. Wherever he went, he talked-in English, French or German-bouncing in & out of chairs, filling his young audience's ears with an endless stream of neat, witty, slightly pedantic but somehow most exciting talk...
...West Germany, by contrast, the rates were only 27 per 100,000 for men and 12 for women. Some other countries with high rates: Austria, 34 men and 15 women; Denmark, 32 and 15; Switzerland, 35 and 13. Japan had a rate of only 24 per 100,000 for men and 15 for women while the U.S. rates (for 1949) were 33 and 10. Countries with a strong Roman Catholic tradition have some of the lowest rates, e.g., 8 and 3 in Spain, 4 and 1 in Ireland. Other findings: ¶Most of the 32 governments reporting found that suicides...
Considering the length of his career and the size of his accomplishment. Gubler is amazingly obscure. He has gone hungry in Italy and France as well as in Zurich, and hardly anyone outside Switzerland ever heard of him until he won a top prize in last summer's Biennale at Venice (TIME, July...