Word: switzerland
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...spite of an American-looking name, Frank Martin was born in 1890 in Switzerland. After winning the usual quota of academic musical prizes, around 1925 he began to experiment with the rhythms of new music, and five years later made contact with Schoenberg's 12-tone techniques. It was an elastic collision: "I may say that, while I came under Schoenberg's influence, I opposed him with all my musical sensibility." Thus, in Le Vin Herbe, a dramatic oratorio on the Tristram legend first performed in 1942, he combined 12-tone series with chordal sequences, and in his passion oratorio...
...astonished to see your quotation from National-Zeitung's article on Trujillo's Swiss ventures [Nov. 23]. We did not say that the Trujillos brought $800 million to Switzerland but between 400 and 800 million Swiss francs, which is less than a quarter of the sum you mentioned...
...Basel, Switzerland...
...assassination, it reports, the Trujillos deposited $35 million in the Bank of Nova Scotia under the name of three cover-up Canadian corporations: later, when the new Dominican government tried to recover the money from Canada, it was transferred to a Geneva bank. More millions poured directly into Switzerland through a network of front companies spread across the Continent. At least seven such fronts were set up in tiny, tax-haven Liechtenstein, and their funds were deposited in Swiss banks. When Swiss bankers were asked by the Dominican government not to accept Trujillo funds, two Geneva banks complied; on discovering...
...farmers that it is "patriotic" not to sell their land. One indignant priest, who had twice been chased off a German-owned beach, complained from the pulpit: "Has the day really come when an Irishman can't go for a swim in his own sea?" In tiny Ticino, Switzerland's only Italian-speaking canton, worried citizens formed a militantly anti-German outfit called D.D.T. (for Difesa del Ticino). But despite a new law screening all foreign real estate purchases, the Germans now outnumber the Swiss in many areas. "The average Swiss," sighs one official, "can no longer afford...