Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. Saanen, Switzerland...
...other members: former Harvard President James B. Conant, Caltech President Lee A. DuBridge, Author Ralph Ellison, Ambassador to Switzerland John S. Hayes, University of Illinois President David D. Henry, Houston Post Chairman Oveta Culp Hobby, J. C. Kellam (manager of Lyndon Johnson's broadcasting holdings), Polaroid President Edwin H. Land, Reynolds Metals President Joseph H. McConnell, Hampshire College President Franklin Patterson, former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, TV Producer Robert (Omnibus) Saudek, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, and United Auto Workers' Executive Leonard Woodcock...
...Germany, two weeks ago, only to beat her by 2 sec. on the second trip down the course-and go on to complete a grand slam by winning the giant slalom next day. It was also before she beat Annie and Marielle in the giant slalom at Grindelwald in Switzerland last week, then flashed to a 1½-sec. victory in the Grindelwald downhill, on a tough, 2,400-yd. course...
...responded to his success by leaving the U.S., where he lived until 1960, to take up a voluntary exile in a hotel in Montreux, Switzerland-as near as he can get to the source of his memories, as near as he wants to get. In a foreword to this splendid hymn to his past, he suggests that one day he will write a sequel, Speak On, Memory, covering the years spent in America...
...European capital market," comments Switzerland's respected Neue Zürcher Zeitung, "has increasingly lost its European character and has grown into the nature of a European-American financial partnership." Many Europeans devoutly hope that U.S. businessmen, whose sales there have now reached $18.6 billion annually with profits approaching $2 billion, will broaden the partnership. For one thing, they would like to see more equity financing-sales of stock in U.S. firms' European operations to the European consumers who make them possible-rather than constant bond flotations...