Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After last October's revolt, the 54-year-old King flew off to vacation in Switzerland with his curvaceous French companion, Josy. There he visited his son, a student at Lausanne University. A few weeks ago, young Charles, after flunking his exams, flew to Burundi, ostensibly to prepare for his father's return in late July. Instead, Charles fired off three telegrams to his father, announcing that he had seized power. Burundi's 2,750,000 inhabitants got the word through a radio broadcast from the capital of Bujumbura, in which Charles denounced the country...
...message to the nation. If not, your acts will be judged by history, as you are courting dangerous trouble." The father gave his son 48 hours to reply, but he would probably have to wait longer than that -if for no other reason than that communications between Burundi and Switzerland have been completely...
...Then Voltaire. In Switzerland, Boswell pulled off the first great coup of his tufthunting tour: an interview with Europe's second most famous author-Jean-Jacques Rousseau. "Go away!" moaned Rousseau, who had to go to the bathroom. "Not yet!" Boswell gritted. "I still have 25 minutes." Liking his nerve and his sincerity, Rousseau gave Boswell six interviews and sent him on his way with a sackful of quotes. Nine days later, Boswell was interviewing Europe's most famous author-Voltaire. In the course of a furious argument about God, Boswell pressed so hard that the wily Frenchman...
Bright, fresh, satirical and full of surprises, She is the result of a month-long collaboration by three of the zaniest sculptors anywhere around: Switzerland's Jean Tinguely, a maker of mad machines; Niki de Saint-Phalle, his American-born friend, famed for her outsized Nana dolls; and Sweden's Per Olof Ultvedt. The three started out full of enthusiasm, which never slackened for a second. Says Tinguely": "It's a Noah's ark, Gulliver's Travels, the tower of Babel. It's like being in an airplane, a factory, a church. Everything...
Died. Jean Arp, 78, a leader in abstract art, best known for his egg-smooth sculptures; of a heart attack; in Basel, Switzerland. Born in French-German Alsace, Arp was nourished in both countries-in Munich in 1912 he studied under Kandinsky; in Paris he worked with his friends Picasso and Modigliani. More for fun than anything else, he was a founding father of Dada, the 1916-22 Bronx cheer that razzed tradition and called it art; yet his own, very personal statements were serenely curved marbles and bronzes...