Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yugoslavia after the split with Marshal Tito. Often the terms of Red aid packages are such that underdeveloped nations are shortchanged. The Russians tacked artificially high price tags (in rubles) onto the goods they bartered in return for Egyptian cotton. Then they resold the cotton to West Germany, Switzerland and other regular Egyptian customers, at a 10% discount...
...theater and fashion world. For two years Tony's great and good friend was a sloe-eyed Chinese model named Jackie Chan (now playing a "yum-yum girl" prostitute in the London production of The World of Suzie Wong), and last year they holidayed together in Switzerland...
Died. Adriano Olivetti, 58, Italian industrialist who turned a one-plant operation he inherited in 1932 into Europe's No. 1 manufacturer of typewriters and office machines of such craftsmanship that they grace art museums as well as offices; of a heart attack, aboard a train in Aigle, Switzerland. An idealistic businessman as well as a sound one, Olivetti boasted that he gave his workers the best conditions in Italy and a voice in management. In off hours he promoted a broad-based cooperative movement, on the strength of it won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies...
...many years since I rode horseback through field and wood or performed modest soldierly duties," wrote Switzerland's famed, 73-year-old Protestant Theologian Karl Barth* recently in the Christian Century. "Climbing uphill no longer tempts me. And even my work pace at the desk has become perceptibly slower. [But] air, water, substantial nourishment and moderate exercise still help me to keep my vigor; and even my faithful pipe still agrees rather well with me." Another sign of youthfulness that Septuagenarian Barth might have added is his continuing ability to change his mind...
...first manufacturer to sell metal skis in quantity. Head announced that his Baltimore-based Head Ski Co. Inc. this season will ship a record 42,000 pairs of metal skis. So popular is his product that 14,000 pairs will go to overseas customers, mostly in Austria and Switzerland, the traditional ski centers...