Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Voices were shrill in the tiny country wedged between Austria and Switzerland. The argument: Would Liechtenstein (pop. 16,000) be represented at the Winter Olympics in California's Squaw Valley next month? No, thundered Chief of Government Alexander Frick, worried lest Liechtenstein's honor be compromised by a last-place finish at the games. "Those who come in last have the real Olympic spirit," countered Baron Edward von Falz-Fein, Chief of Mission for the Liechtenstein Winter Olympic Team. "I wouldn't dream of winning." Added the baron darkly: "There will be a revolution if they...
Just when Roman gossips all but had Iran's beautiful ex-Queen Soraya married off to Italy's suave Prince Raimondo Orsini, Soraya, 27, effectively stilled the wagging tongues. With Orsini nowhere in sight, she traipsed off to Switzerland and the courtly attentions of well-to-do German Industrialist Harold von Bohlen und Halbach, 43. In St. Moritz, skiing by day and dancing far into cozy candlelit nights, Soraya and her companion appeared to be verging on a beautiful friend ship. Was it romance? The only clue came from the tall, blondish bachelor, who turned to a lone...
...grew older, Mahler became more and more terrified of the madness that haunted his family. He often refused to work in the isolated studio outside his summer home in Switzerland because he was convinced that every move he made was watched by a vengeful "goat-god." On the score of his tenth and last symphony, he scrawled despairing words: "The devil dances with me. Madness seizes me, accursed that I am-annihilates me, so that I forget that I exist, so that I cease to be . . ." Feverish and with a badly weakened heart, he conducted his last concert with...
...serving at churches in St. Louis, Mo., Chester and Grove City, Pa., Philadelphia-born Presbyterian Schaeffer went to Champery in 1949 to help organize Sunday schools for continental Protestants. But as the only Protestant minister for miles around, he attracted too many adults who were ripe for churching; despite Switzerland's reputation for tolerance...
Third Man on the Mountain. Beautifully photographed in Switzerland, James Ramsey Ullman's Banner in the Sky has become a sort of alpine Huckleberry Finn, with James MacArthur as the main piton in a juvenile adventure...