Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other jewels had been confiscated by state agents as security against $14,200 in California taxes that she has owed since 1959. It was all a "silly, stupid misunderstanding," insisted La Lollo, but she lost no time setting matters straight with a draft on her bank account in Switzerland. "What is so incredible to me," she murmured, "is that the tax people wouldn't believe that I have assets...
...past seven years, Petula has sold 10 million records in Europe, in the past four months, 1,700,000 in the U.S. Various of her songs at one time or another have popped to the top of the hit parade in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Rumania and Switzerland. At her home base, Paris, where the tousled blonde is possessively known as "La Petulante Petula," she has collected the Grand Prix du Disque (just like Edith Piaf and Yves Montand before her), and earlier this year got the Bravos du Music Hall, France's annual award to the female...
...right, who appeared with Charlie in Mack Sennett's early Keystone Cops comedies, starred in the first of four film versions of Charley's Aunt in 1925, ended his movie career in 1939 after assisting his brother in The Great Dictator, spending his remaining years in Switzerland and France; of heart and other ailments; in Nice...
...States has lost $825 billion in gold, as compared to $125 million in all of 1964. France has been responsible for over half (450 million) of that decline. But Germany has quietly raised her gold-reserve ratio by 6%; Spain has cashed in 60 million dollars for gold. And Switzerland, the Netherlands and Italy have all contributed to the problem. The U.S. gold stock fell last month to $14 billion, the lowest in 26 years. And experts predict that the worst is yet to come...
...case of jazz and Faulkner, Europeans pride themselves on having discovered an American art form long before Americans got around to recognizing it. At comics clubs, which have sprung up in France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland, zealous members pore over antique editions of American comics (old strips now fetch about $50 each), discuss by the hour the imperialism of The Phantom or the anarchism of Li'I Abner...