Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coeducational "living-learning units," in which they sleep, eat and take some of their required freshman and sophomore courses under single roofs. Last year 300 freshmen moved into M.S.U.'s new Justin S. Morrill College, which accents languages and foreign studies. One-third of the students visited Russia, Switzerland and Spain together this summer...
...Switzerland, commercial banks last month raised the prime interest rate from 5% to 6% , the first such increase since 1937 in the frugal little country...
...these new Columbuses have a particular need for sympathy. They come to the U.S. for serious discovery, for searching out the American character; as yet only a few of them, emulating Americans sunning on the Riviera or skiing in Switzerland, seek the vacationer's pleasures of summering in New England, fishing the Minnesota lakes, hiking through the California redwoods or luxuriating in a Florida hotel. Anticipating the crush of tourism that is to come, the U.S. must learn to recognize the foreign visitor and make him feel wanted and welcome. It should not be a difficult task...
...York City has a strong new law requiring walls soundproof enough to reduce any airborne noise passing through by 45 decibels. In Geneva, Switzerland, it is an offense to slam a car door too loudly. France confiscates automobiles that repeat noise violations. The rubber, plastic-or leather-guarded garbage can is commonplace in London, Paris and Berlin-an improvement that could hush Manhattan's most characteristic and deafening early-morning sound. Bermuda has instituted the quiet motorbike. Outboard motors are losing their bark; truck mufflers that kill the roar are available...
...European bloc, including West Germany, Italy and Holland, is in favor of creating a new kind of money, dubbed the "cru" (for composite reserve unit), which would take its place along with the dollar and the pound in the reserves of the world's central banks. Belgium and Switzerland opt instead for merely increasing the borrowing rights that 103 nations already have with the International Monetary Fund. Other nations, including the U.S., would agree to a combination of the two plans...