Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently Cairo's crusading newspaper Akhbar el Yom printed a transcript of tapped phone talks that showed how she operated. The time of the talks: a few days after the Naguib coup. Zeezee, then in Switzerland, called Serag el Din in Cairo and ordered him to maneuver a chosen candidate into the Regency Council which Naguib was setting up. "Hader" (At your service), said Serag el Din. Then she called her husband, repeated her instructions. "At your order," replied Nahas meekly. As an afterthought, she told him to send her some more Swiss francs because she had already spent...
...Lausanne, Switzerland, Author Somerset Maugham, 78, moved to a hotel for a few weeks rest after undergoing a hernia operation...
Invited by Paul Henri Spaak to counsel a pre-constitutional convention, Friedrich and Robert R. Bowie, professor of Law, advised the group on federal systems in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Germany. From these examples, the two offered suggestions for an effective European authority...
With these lines, a Belgian poetess registered her protest against Fellow Poetess Pierette Micheloud, of Vex, Switzerland, who insisted on puffing away at a long-stemmed, elegant pipe. The limerick was by far the sharpest contribution heard at the First International Poetry Biennial, which assembled 200 poets from 30 countries at Knokke le Zoute, Belgian seaside resort, to spend a happy four days talking shop and eying each other's iambs...
Married. Horace Dwight Taft, 27, youngest son of Ohio's senior Senator, now a physics graduate student at the University of Chicago; and Mary Jane Badger, 22, whom he met while studying in Switzerland; in Washington...