Word: switzerland
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...known "by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ," Screen Star Charlie Chaplin once said of himself. Yet when the Little Tramp of silent films was buried in Switzerland last week, following his death on Christmas Day at the age of 88, the final scene was a family affair. Wife Oona, 52, a small circle of friends and servants, and eight of Chaplin's nine children gathered in Corsier-sur-Vevey, the small village where he had lived for the last 25 years and where he was laid to rest in a plot overlooking Lake Geneva. Chaplin...
...last, Chaplin, who died at 88 on Christmas Day at his home in Vevey, Switzerland, produced simply himself. But that self was not so simple. It was first introduced to America as a vaudeville clown in 1910, and the country did not respond warmly. Charlie's comic flare failed to ignite enthusiasm until the epochal one-reeler in which he tried on Fatty Arbuckle's pants and Chester Conklin's jacket. In that moment The Tramp was born, and with him a long parabola of triumph and humiliation. The arc described a career bred of deprivation...
DIED. Sir Charles Chaplin, 88, comic genius; of old age; in Vevey, Switzerland (see CINEMA...
...argument is getting venomous. Europeans are practically unanimous in their conviction that Washington's refusal to support the dollar is in fact a stratagem to force Japan, West Germany and Switzerland to expand their economies or be priced out of the U.S. and other markets altogether. In fact there are already signs that several important sectors of the West German economy are suffering from the rise in the value of the mark against the dollar, which makes German goods more expensive on world markets. Sales of textiles, a major export, are off 3% from last year. Makers of machine...
...Presbyterian Evangelist Leigh ton Ford, will meet in Bermuda in mid-January to set the time and place for a 1980 strategy conference to follow up the 1974 Evangelical congress in Lausanne, Switzerland...