Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Khan, 68, King of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929, who led his country into the Third Afghan War in 1919, won independence from Great Britain, but ran into so much resistance when he tried to westernize Afghanistan that he was forced to abdicate; after a long illness; in Zurich, Switzerland...
Lausanne, Switzerland...
...wonder if Mrs. "Pepperidge" Rudkin [March 21] has ever eaten a real, long, fresh, crunchy French loaf. Has she ever tasted the hard, dark bread from the Canton Valais in Switzerland? If she had, she would not have the gall to talk about showing Europe "how to make good bread...
...Benson & Hedges' Parliament) began to get hot. Reynolds was ready with its own filter, developed under a team consisting of Chairman John C. Whitaker, President Ed Darr and new Sales Chief Bowman Gray. The man who had seen filters coming was Darr, who was impressed by their popularity in Switzerland during a vacation. But the man who decided when to roll was Gray. Reynolds' test panel had smoked 250 versions of the trial Winston over two years when Gray took a puff of a new blend numbered 736 one day in 1954. Cried he: "This...
...machine that destroys itself," was the billing, and it proved irresistible to Manhattan's earnest pursuers of the avantgarde. Last week some 250 of them braved cold and slush to watch as Switzerland's Jean Tinguely fiddled and fussed with his 27-ft.-high tangle of white-painted iron in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art. An hour and a half later, the suicide-fated machine started flaming and sawing at its mixed-up insides, turned balky despite several judiciously aimed kicks from its creator, got doused betimes by an anxious fireman...