Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sector commander in Algeria, he was famed for his use of psychological warfare tactics against the rebel F.L.N. An Argoud specialty: exhibiting in the streets bodies of executed Moslem prisoners as a warning. After leaving Algeria, he grew a beard and shuttled anonymously between Italy, Germany and Switzerland. Argoud had already been sentenced to death in absentia for his part in the 1961 Generals' Putsch, and, as a member of the diehard Council of National Resistance, is believed to have ordered the attempted assassination of De Gaulle at Petit-Clamart, outside Paris, last year...
...building is as free as sculpture. From every angle it offers fresh surprises, and sometimes it seems, with all its pillars and recesses and terraces, as intricate as the waterworks that young Le Corbusier used to work on when he was a watchmaker's apprentice back in Switzerland. It rests on pilotis that vary in size according to the weight they must bear. Each of the five floors seems different from the others, for the building is an enormously imaginative assortment of squares and rectangles broken by great sweeping curves. A ramp snakes up from Quincy Street through...
Voltaire, quarrelsome and sickly in his old age, was in Switzerland during the long months of the investigation and trial. By the time he heard of the case, judgment had been pronounced. Mme. Calas was released, her other son was banished from France. But Father Calas was executed upon the wheel; the judges' sentence stipulated that his arms, legs, loins and thighs were to be broken and "his face turned to the sky, to live in pain and repentance . . . as long as it pleases God to give him life...
Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History, emeritus, and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, has won a $51,000 award in history. The Prize was given him Thursday by the International Balzan Foundation of Zurich, Switzerland...
...Munich State Operas, frequent guest conductor with the Salzburg Festival, Milan's La Scala and orchestras throughout Europe, but best known for his precise, cold-fire style that in the early 1950s raised the Berlin Radio Symphony to rank as one of Europe's best; in Basel, Switzerland...