Word: switzerland
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...without God." Bakunin issued to Nechaev a sort of party card or credential of the "International Alliance," bearing the serial number 2771. As a consequence, the Czar's agents and half the police of Europe were looking for at least 2,770 conspirators. When Nechaev was extradited from Switzerland, he was treated as the head of a huge conspiracy. Shackled, in solitary confinement in Peter-Paul's deepest dungeon, Nechaev was able to convert his guards to the revolution; he even convinced them that he had engineered the assassination of Czar Alexander...
...dropped from tenth to eleventh place in the roster of nations as measured by baby care. In 1950, the U.S. was in sixth place. Heading the roll now are The Netherlands and Sweden, tied with 153 deaths per 10,000 births. Next come Norway, Finland, Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. It was Ireland that nudged the U.S. out of the top ten last year, by moving up from 13th place. To some slight extent, the U.S. infant-death rate reflects modern medicine's ability to maintain pregnancies and deliver babies in cases that, years...
...Switzerland's Karl Barth, the greatest living Protestant theologian, could hardly be accused of being soft on Rome. "I cannot hear the voice of the Good Shepherd as coming from this Chair of Peter," he once said. But in the current issue of the quarterly Ecumenical Review, published by the World Council of Churches, Theologian Barth declares that Protestantism is in danger of being overtaken by the pervasive changes that are in process in Roman Catholicism, as evidenced by the Vatican Council (which is scheduled to reconvene Sept...
Laborers in Switzerland, France and Italy work longer than the Germans, and the French and Italians work longest-an average 45-to 48-hour week. In Britain the work week has been reduced from an average 47.4 hours in 1960 to 42 this year. Europe's shortest work week is in Norway, where laborers spend an average 39.6 hours per week in the factories. But most other European nations have a way to go before they near the 40.4 hours put in by the average worker...
...fear of overcrowding its pocket paradise, Liechtenstein (pop. 18,000) has granted citizenship to only a dozen foreigners since 1950, and worries mightily over its rising birth rate. An unsullied blend of lush meadowland and soaring Alpine peaks, the nation nestles so unobtrusively between Austria and Switzerland (since 1924 it has shared currency, customs services and foreign service with the Swiss) that vacationers driving through are often unaware that they are even in Franz Josef's fief. This bothers Liechtenstein's government not at all, for, as Prime Minister Alexander Frick once observed, the sight of idle tourists...