Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drama festivals is the Théâtre des Nations. Over the years, 175 theatrical troupes from 50 countries have traveled to Paris to offer 745 performances. The Peking opera was the hit of 1960, and this year's schedule brings groups from the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, India, Ireland, Uruguay, Chile, Egypt and South Africa. Just before returning to the U.S., the State Department-sponsored troupe that included Helen Hayes, June Havoc, Leif Erickson and Helen Menken did The Skin of Our Teeth and The Grass Menagerie there. And this week Manhattan's Living...
...little more waspishly, Walker took up the chronic British complaint that British collectors and museums do not have the cash to compete with the U.S. "If money is so scarce," said Walker, "why do you buy in Switzerland a picture like the Lanskeronski St. George and the Dragon, whose only connection with English culture, so far as I can make out, is that St. George is the patron saint of England? We were anxious to purchase this picture ourselves, but it was too expensive for us. It is an indication of the immense riches you can draw upon when...
...head of an international spy ring. He is to go into Budapest and whisk out a man wanted by the Hungarian government: Walter Rilla, a scholarly, idealistic anti-Communist who smuggles enemies of the state across the border into Austria. The story, filmed in Austria, Switzerland and England, turns on how Widmark finds Rilla while dodging the Hungarian secret police and the Russian army of occupation. Widmark also dallies with Picasso-eyed Sonja Ziemann, who plays Rilla's doughty daughter...
...wish to have the enmity of any group. But we know how to choose our friends: those who will not impair our liberty." Houphouet-Boigny would ultimately like to see the same sort of solidarity emerge from the Monrovia nations. "Our hope is that Africa will become a huge Switzerland...
...Genius." The recipient of these accolades was born to the name of Charles Edouard Jeanneret in the dour Jura mountain village of La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, a few miles from the French border. His parents were Protestants, descendants of the heretical Albigenses who took refuge in the town in the 13th and 14th centuries. His father, a stolid leader of the local Alpine Club, was an enameler of watch faces. His mother, who died last year at 100, trained her oldest son, Albert, to be a musician, and told Charles Edouard: "You will be a genius...