Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whites, Negroes have made impressive gains in education, particularly at the college level. Outnumbered by white students 30 to 1, they have raised their numbers in colleges and universities to 225,000-far greater than the total enrollments of the universities of Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Switzerland put together. Almost all the Southern universities now have some Negroes. Admissions officers at such universities as California and Stanford give preference to Negroes; like many other schools, Harvard often chooses Negroes over whites with equivalent academic records. So many scholarships are being offered that almost any talented, energetic Negro youngster...
...this began six years ago. Now 200 paintings hang in the Zevenaar plant and two newer Turmac factories at Harderwijk in The Netherlands and near Zurich, Switzerland. Last month 31 of the works began a six-week showing at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in the Louvre Palace, which is a pretty good place to hang...
Dulles' narrative is straight out of the best spy fiction. In Switzerland in 1942 he established an OSS listening post that listened right into Nazi Germany itself; for example, he knew months in advance of the generals' plot against Hitler in July...
Died. Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr., 80, New York's official city greeter from 1954 to 1965, a suave and dapper onetime mining engineer, business executive and U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia (1944-47), Guatemala (1948-51) and Switzerland (1951-53), who in 1954 was appointed "Chairman of the Mayor's Reception Committee of New York City," for the next twelve years glad-handed just about everyone, official or not, from hereditary kings to beauty queens and lumberjacks; in Manhattan...
...royal portraits by Goya outside of Spain, the painting's near $75,000 price tag, says Lee, provoked "great weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth" among his board. But he more than made up for it with the Ribera-found hanging in a dark museum staircase in Geneva, Switzerland-which, by comparison, cost but a song...