Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first installment, Fox alone has taken six years of work. To underpin his imagination, Hughes read through the entire Nürnberg trial transcript, traveled to Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Poland to interview "dozens" of people who knew Hitler personally in the Munich days-including a boy who used to call Hitler "Uncle Dolph." His prize find: an old newspaper file containing the diary of a participant in the 1923 Munich putsch...
...most are. All have ready access to high-level officials. All have at their fingertips the greatest daily outpouring of source material on earth-U.S. newspapers-and few hesitate to borrow heavily, with or without attribution. "If there is a real problem," says erudite Werner Imhoof of Switzerland's Neue Zürcher Zeitung, "it's that you are overwhelmed by news...
Into Vevey, Switzerland, for the wedding of Bulgaria's ex-King Simeon, 24, to a Spanish banking heiress, bounced Egypt's suety ex-King Farouk, 41, accompanied by second daughter Princess Fawzia, 21. Europe's reigning royalty was conspicuously absent, but 180 lesser bloods crammed into the small Russian Orthodox chapel, where only three seats were set up-for the three onetime monarchs among them. While Bulgaria's ex-Queen loanna and Albania's ex-Queen Geraldine democratically declined to use theirs, Farouk sat down in lonely, perspiring splendor...
...secure his release through bribery, the elder Müller realized that he and his family had to flee. The Müllers went to Prague, only to find the city overburdened with refugees already. For Jan Müller, life became one long search for a home-in Switzerland, in Amsterdam, in Paris. When World War II broke out, the French interned the boy as a German; when the French surrendered, he fled the Nazis again...
Trained on the stages of Switzerland. Austria. France and Germany, educated at the universities of Munich and Zurich, Schell is more intellectual than actor. He intends later on to write and direct (he wrote his first play when he was ten). "Acting," he says, "is a little like prostitution. When you do a scene, it is a little like making love. I don't like to be watched while making love. Since you get paid for it. it is like a prostitute who sells love...