Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first group of U.S. volunteer doctors arrived last September; the current head count is 29, scattered up and down the country working alongside similar teams from Korea, Switzerland, the Philippines, Iran, Taiwan, New Zealand and Australia. The U.S. program limits itself to volunteer physicians under 55. They get free transportation and a $10 per-diem for incidentals. Balanced against this is time lost from practice that amounts to a sacrifice of thousands of dollars...
...curators now attribute it to Rogier van der Weyden. They suspect that St. George is one part of a diptych whose matching half, which also bears the seal of Prussia's former ruler Frederick the Great on the back, is owned by Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza in Switzerland...
Just hearing it described last winter in Gstaad, Switzerland, made it sound like a perfect spring vacation. As Robin Duke, wife of U.S. Ambassador to Spain Angier Biddle Duke, pictured the annual fair in Seville, it was the essence of Spain, a six-day post-Lenten fiesta with superb bull fighting, Andalusian flamenco dancing all night long in the fair's tent village, colorful parades and a marvelous ball. What's more, the Duchess of Alba would be all too glad to have Jacqueline Kennedy as her guest...
...mostly handcrafted auto bodies a day at prices ranging from $2,500 for a Fiat to $18,000 for a Ferrari, each stamped with the designer's genius for sweeping, uncluttered, unchromed lines, something that Detroit has come to admire in recent years; of liver disease; in Lausanne, Switzerland...
...century's greatest Protestant theologian, Karl Barth of Switzerland, has consistently warned his fellow churchmen that God is a "wholly other" being, whom man can only know by God's self-revelation in the person of Christ, as witnessed by Scripture. Any search for God that starts with human experience, Barth warns, is a vain quest that will discover only an idol, not the true...