Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drug was developed in 1938 by Dr. Albert Hofmann, a research chemist at the Sandoz laboratories at Basel, Switzerland, who was trying to find a new stimulant for the nervous system. He did not know what he had done, however, until five years later, when he accidentally inhaled a minute amount and became dizzy and delirious, with "fantastic visions of extraordinary vividness accompanied by a kaleidoscopic play of intense coloration...
...where his father, Prince Mahidol, was studying at Harvard. Mahidol died two years later, and Bhumibol, with his older brother Ananda and his sister, were taken back to Bangkok by his mother. After the 1932 coup, she moved them from the uncertainty of the capital to Switzerland, and there Bhumibol grew up in a modest villa in Lausanne, chauffeuring off each day to the Ecole Nouvelle de Chailly, where he learned English, French and German...
...Hitchcock thrillers and swift sports cars-one of which he smashed up on a Swiss road, very nearly losing an eye. To this day he seldom appears in public without tinted glasses. He had been studying science; when he assumed the throne in 1946, he went back to Switzerland to finish his studies and switched to law. He first saw his beautiful second cousin Sirikit when she was only 14, at a reception in Paris, where her father was the Thai ambassador. When he returned to Europe as King, he pursued her in earnest. The wedding took place in April...
Married. Melina Mercouri, 40, who makes a virtue out of vice (Never on Sunday, Topkapi); and Director Jules Dassin, 54, her constant companion for ten years; both for the second time; in Lausanne, Switzerland...
With such a wealth of art, a favorite guessing game on three continents has been: Who will get the collection? London's Tate Gallery offered to build a museum in Regent's Park to house it. Israel was willing to match all offers; so was Zurich, Switzerland. At home, Los Angeles wanted the collection for its new museum; Governor Nelson Rockefeller wanted it for New York State; the Baltimore museum offered to build a separate wing. Hirshhorn himself at various times was rumored to be alternately considering turning his Greenwich home into a museum or planning to build...