Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...requires parents to have their children baptized as soon as possible-several progressive theologians have seriously suggested that the ceremony be postponed until puberty, when a youth presumably is mature enough to accept or reject his faith. Perhaps the most formidable challenge to infant baptism was made recently by Switzerland's venerable Karl Earth, in Part 4 of Volume IV of his ever expanding masterwork, Church Dogmatics. In his latest book, Barth argues that there is no Biblical basis for infant baptism and that the ritual is not an act of God's grace but a human response...
...alone, Nixdorf estimates that another 100,000 small computers can be sold. Outside Germany, the market is even greater, and Nixdorf is gearing for it. One reason the company acquired Wanderer was to get its export network; in addition, Nixdorf will open its own sales offices this year in Switzerland, Italy and France. Business is so good, in fact, that the company might even finally put a distinguishing name plate on the door of its yellow-brick Paderborn office...
Last week his successor, Olivier Long, 53, moved into Le Bocage, the 150-year-old lakeside villa set in the greenery of a Geneva suburb that serves as head quarters for GATT and its small professional staff of 60. A native of Geneva and Switzerland's suave Ambassador to the Court of St. James's since 1966, Long brings a portfolio of experience that he collected during six years as head of the Swiss delegation to the Outer Seven...
...Switzerland, Laos, Burma, Indonesia, India, Ceylon, Japan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Malaysia, Italy, Belgium, Finland, Austria. In addition, other locales in Algeria, Rumania, Egypt and Tanzania were mentioned...
During the past three months, students have demonstrated for change in 20 countries. They have taken to the streets in such usual centers of student unrest as Brazil, Japan and The Netherlands and in such normally placid places as Denmark, Switzerland and West Germany. Student protests have led to the temporary closing of at least three dozen universities in the U.S., Italy, Spain, Tunisia, Mexico, Ethiopia and other countries. Belgian student demonstrations, fanning the old Flemish-v.-Walloon controversy, brought the government down. Egyptian students, marching in spontaneous protest against government inefficiency, obliged Gamal Abdel Nasser to rearrange his Cabinet...