Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from 40? to 48? a pack. The same brands sell at 77? to 79? at the state-owned tobacconist's, for the state tobacco monopoly imposes a 35? duty on every legally imported pack of cigarettes, while the friendly little man's cigarettes are smuggled, mostly from Switzerland...
...Swiss could not care less, so long as the smugglers register their purchases for export. The contrabbandieri respond gratefully by registering-most of the time. As a result, official Swiss statistics show that cigarette exports to Italy (usually of U.S. brands made under license in Switzerland) flared from 50 million packs in 1960 to 210 million packs last year, while Italian statistics show that only 3,000,000 packs of cigarettes were imported legally in 1964. Italian border police nabbed another 70 million packs of smokes being toted over the border on everything from helicopters and freight cars to trained...
...countries, which voluntarily pay judgments against them. Says State Department Lawyer Carl Salano: "We believe that the U.S. should not deviate from adherence to domestic and international law just because certain other countries, such as Castro's Cuba, do so." But the doctrine appears ripe for further revision. Switzerland and Italy have dropped all immunity for certain types of commercial activity. Some State Department insiders predict that the U.S. will eventually follow suit...
...woman is turned down on all sides but has enough money, she can go to Scandinavia, Switzerland or Japan, where a legal abortion is easier to obtain, or to Mexico or Puerto Rico, where abortions are technically illegal but relatively easy to arrange, under medical auspices...
Married. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 40, famed German lieder singer; and Ruth Leuwerik, 39, German film star; both for the second time (his first, Cellist Irmgard Poppen, died in childbirth in 1963); in Zollikon, Switzerland...