Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forced migration of the Europeans to France need not be economically disastrous. Up to 400,000 Europeans can be repatriated to France over a ten-year period without undue strain, the group argued. France has fewer inhabitants per square mile than Switzerland, and the population over the past ten years has risen at the low rate of only 7% (compared with 18% in the U.S.). The influx of new blood could be beneficial; Southern France in particular could use Algeria's skilled farmers. West Germany and The Netherlands both absorbed proportionately more refugees from East Germany and Indonesia...
Garbed like an Eskimo and puffing on a cigarette, the Duchess of Kent, 54, anxiously watched the British army ski championships at St. Moritz, Switzerland. Reason for her visible dismay was the performance of the team captain of the Royal Scots Greys-her son, the Duke of Kent, 25. The duke fell twice in the downhill, each time losing a ski, was disqualified in the slalom. Straight-faced the London Daily Telegraph: "The duke was none the worse for his experience...
Wellborn Babes. Dorian scouts the world for new talent, has helped make the Parisian model market so cosmopolitan that perhaps not even De Gaulle himself could turn back the clock. Among the season's best: trim and Finnish Brigitte Juslin, who is tops in sportswear; Switzerland's dark, blue-eyed Carla Marlier; Germany's Nico Ozack ("a magnificent Renoir body-in the nude she doesn't look like a model at all"); Jasmine, ex-shepherdess from Algeria, who gained her poise carrying water jugs on her head. The favorite in the February Harper's Bazaar...
...three obstacles that were held to be insurmountable: temperature, gas exchange and metabolism." Petrucci's suggestion stunned the Roman Catholic Church. Its plain reply: the experiments should be stopped. At week's end, bowing to pressure, Catholic Petrucci announced that he was leaving for a vacation in Switzerland...
France, on his way to Switzerland. Then, in a Fiat borrowed in Vienna, he may have driven to Venice, where he reportedly registered at Hotelâ Bauer Grunwald as Renato Stafani. In Milan, he is supposed to have registered at the Grand Hotel Duomo using his wife's maiden name of Silva. He was rumored to have visited a Florence art gallery, from there reported ly drove on to Rome and an unidentified friend's villa at Ostia, 20 miles from Rome, where a Brazilian embassy spokes man helpfully announced: "I can't even tell...