Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This new-style speaking in tongues had its origin at a meeting near Interlaken, Switzerland, in 1948, at which a group of North American Protestant evangelical leaders, including Billy Graham and Dr. Harold Ockenga of Boston's Park Street Church, decided that European Protestantism was hiding its light under a bushel. Though there were 28 Protestant religious stations outside the U.S., they noted, there was not one in Europe-which had two-thirds of the radio sets outside...
...many ways Allen Dulles, 68, is an unlikely sort of man to head CIA. The amiable, scholarly younger brother of John Foster Dulles, Allen got his Phi Beta Kappa key at Princeton, taught for a year in India, joined the Foreign Service in 1916. He was in Switzerland when the U.S. entered World War I, leaped straight into intelligence work. In 1926 he took a law degree at George Washington University, joined his brother Foster in law work in New York...
...helped install him. In those three years, he had skillfully employed his enormous prestige to restore the army's loyalty and bring his nation to the recognition that a French Algeria was a lost dream. With the F.L.N. leaders ready to talk peace either in France or Switzerland next month, an end to the long, bloody ordeal of Algeria seemed at long last within his grasp...
...lumberjack in northern Germany. The mysterious attraction Eichmann held for some women smoothed the way: unanimously, they found him polite, considerate, and filled with a romantic melancholy. After three years' concealment, he made contact with the still existent Nazi underground and was smuggled through Switzerland to Italy. There, posing as an anti-Communist refugee, he got a Red Cross D.P. travel document and sailed for Argentina...
...Budge") Patty, 37, expatriate, happy-go-lucky party boy of amateur tennis (he worked occasionally as a travel agent and movie bit player), winner of the 1950 Wimbledon title; and Maria Marcina Sfezzo, 29, ash-blonde daughter of a Brazilian engineering magnate; both for the first time; in Lausanne, Switzerland...