Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet defector: Victor Korchnoi, 47, a tempestuous, irritable man who narrowly lost to Karpov in a 1974 Moscow match. He blamed his defeat on harassment by Soviet officialdom, and later sought asylum in The Netherlands, leaving behind a wife and child. (He eventually moved to West Germany, then Switzerland...
...victorious, would have to turn perhaps half his $350,000 winner's share of prize money over to the Soviet government. But that should not hurt too much, given the amenities made available to him, which include a chauffeur-driven Mercedes. For Korchnoi, who lives modestly in Wohlen, Switzerland, and earns some $3,000 a month from exhibitions and tournaments, the money would come in handy, especially should he lose a $100,000 breach of contract suit being brought against him by his ex-manager...
Bettina Sulzer, 29, whose family is prominent in Switzerland, deals with European clients at Manhattan's prestigious Andre Emmerich art gallery. Says the slender, demure Bettina: "I am into an American group. I don't want to hang around with Europeans as a group. The jet set I certainly don't want to be with." Though her family has always trotted the globe-her grandmother was the last survivor of the Titanic when she died in 1972-she spends her vacations exploring America: this summer she will go to Wyoming, sleeping in a tepee on a ranch...
John Casablancas, 34, a member of an old Spanish family that fled the Franco regime, was educated in Switzerland, Spain and Germany, worked in Belgium, Spain, Brazil and France before moving to the U.S. in 1977. His eight-year-old model agency in Paris, Elite, is Europe's biggest. It was only "natural" for him to start another Elite in New York; in its first full year the agency expects to gross at least $4 million. Though he keeps an apartment in Paris and a farm in southern France, his base is a four-bedroom East Side Manhattan apartment...
Like some other Italians, Carlo De Benedetti, Olivetti's managing director and deputy chairman, has moved his family out of the country; his wife and three children have lived in Switzerland for the past three years. But few businessmen themselves have been prompted to leave, and most would regard such a move with distaste. Says Alfa Romeo Chairman Gaetano Cortesi of the kidnaping threat: "If it happens, it happens. But if you give up, they win." Cortesire-Ruoi FREY fuses to hire bodyguards, yet he tries to keep his movements unpredictable. He never buys his newspaper from the same...