Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Yusif Bedas, 56, former president of Lebanon's Intra Bank, central figure in one of the Middle East's most spectacular financial scandals; after a long illness; in Lucerne, Switzerland. Bedas founded a money-changing business on a $4,000 stake in 1948, built it into a $350 million empire centered around Intra. But in 1966, as depositors' money suddenly flowed out of Beirut, Intra collapsed; Lebanese authorities held him responsible for "unorthodox banking practices," but Bedas maintained that "enemies" had conspired to break...
...used to feign illness so he could stay home from school and listen to radio soap opera. Television does not have that kind of clutch on him. He doesn't even have a set in his Manhattan co-op apartment or his mountain lodge in Switzerland. There is one in his beach house on Long Island, but the area is so remote that "you can't get anything." He does keep a working set at his desert retreat in Palm Springs, but he says, "I never find anything on it." He is contemptuous of adventure programs ("Fictionalized crime...
...Ferrer, 51, its brooding prince (Knights of the Round Table, War and Peace), who married Audrey after they appeared together in a Broadway production of Ondine (she as a water sprite, he as knight-errant); on grounds of incompatibility; after 14 years of marriage, one child; in Merges, Switzerland...
...became the Vatican's foremost Biblical scholar, served for 13 years as confessor to Pope Pius XII, was principal author of Pius' encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu, which encouraged previously forbidden scientific study of the Bible. As head of the Secretariat, he traveled to England, Greece, Switzerland and the U.S. to promote ecumenical communication. He campaigned fervently to persuade Vatican Council conservatives to agree to a declaration on the attitude of the Church toward non-Christians, a retraction of the charge that all Jews are guilty of Christ's Crucifixion, and a reaffirmation of Christianity's Jewish...
...dominated Communism was a perversion of Marxist and humanitarian ideals. He had been a founder of the Italian Communist Party, a shadow person in the anti-Fascist underground, a delegate to Moscow convocations of the faithful and an exile from Mussolini's Italy. In 1930, he settled in Switzerland, and stayed for 14 years, writing novels. His best was Bread and Wine (1937), the story of an idealist's struggle against Mussolini. It ranks with Malraux's Man's Fate and Koestler's Darkness at Noon as an expression of the moral ambiguity that seizes...