Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zurich, Switzerland's largest city (pop. 440,000), is such a bastion of Zwinglian virtues and respect for law and order that unkind observers say it would resemble a graveyard, if only it were a little livelier. The thought of public violence in Zurich is utterly improbable. Yet last week there were student riots right in downtown Zurich- and they were just as violent as anything seen recently on the Boulevard Saint-Germain or on the Columbia University campus...
...Europe, they seem to manage this somewhat more gracefully than Americans do. My friend Gloria Guinness, who is married to Loel of the banking (not brewing) Guinnesses, claims that it's easier to maintain four houses than one. Her four are in Paris, Normandy, Switzerland and Palm Beach, and she keeps a skeleton staff of servants and a complete wardrobe in each house so that she and Loel don't have to tote stuff around. "Without luggage," she says, "you don't have to waste time in customs and you don't have to declare anything." The Guinnesses are usually...
...frankly and almost completely autobiographical. Like his plays, Exile is a characteristically raw and intensely passionate statement. Weiss's first-person hero is a German-born half Jew who at 18 leaves his country to get away from the Nazis. He subsequently sojourns in England, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and Sweden (where Weiss now lives). But the title refers not so much to the transient state of a political refugee as it does to the traditional alienated state of an artistic spirit...
...moneymen assembled last week in Basel, Switzerland, the 38th annual meeting of the Bank for International Settlements was the occasion for a somber review of the past year's dizzying dislocations in world finance. Last fall the pound was devalued. Four months later came the speculative attack on the dollar that resulted in abandonment of the London gold pool. More recently, France's upheaval put unexpected pressures on the franc. "You can't tell the difference between monetary crisis and noncrisis any more," concluded one official at Basel. "Now it's crisis all the time...
...whose mother is a psychiatrist and whose father is dean of instruction at The American College of Switzerland, is not the customary introverted boy genius. He enjoys skiing and bridge, makes friends easily, dates a 20-year-old coed. Like most students, he prefers eleventh-hour cramming to term-long study. But he is bright, fast, hates to go to bed before five in the morning, and is in a very big hurry to succeed academically...