Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). Finals of the ten-day "World Series" of bowling from Dallas. Also the world pentathlon championship from Berne, Switzerland...
...France, last month, Jean Saubert (rhymes with "Aw, Bert!") won the giant slalom and swept the women's combined Alpine championship. At Oberstaufen, Germany, two weeks ago, she split two slalom races, winning one and placing third in the second. Last week at Grindelwald, Switzerland, all of Europe's top skiers were on hand for the winter's biggest pre-Olympic competition. When lack of snow forced cancellation of the downhill race and threatened to wipe out the whole program, the Swiss moved the races to the base of the Eiger, a forbidding 13,036-ft. peak...
Born. To Herbert von Karajan, 55, maestro of the Berlin Philharmonic, and French-born Eliette Mouret von Karajan, 28: their second child, second daughter; in St. Moritz, Switzerland...
...trial in a crowded Sofia court room, Georgiev, 56, confessed to a double life of spying for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, which he said provided him with $200,000, three secret bank accounts in Switzerland, and a harem of mistresses at home and abroad. In return, Georgiev said, he tipped off the CIA to Communist strategy at the U.N., supplied secret intelligence about the Sino-Soviet split. He was so good at his job, Georgiev reported modestly, that the CIA gave him a diploma for efficiency, and the courtroom audience tittered when the ex-diplomat said he once asked...
...preholiday week went on, the mood swung between exhilaration and gloom. Having threatened to torpedo the Common Market, Charles de Gaulle kept up the pressure by telling a visitor: "After all, we could always be a large Switzerland"-a reference to the separate path that France could take. But the spur of a deadline and the ministers' eagerness to get home in time for a peaceful Christmas produced some compromises in Brussels...