Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only kid show to avoid entirely is SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON (ABC, Sunday, 7 p.m. E.D.T.). The grand old dream of escape from civilization to an island Eden has been thoroughly polluted, not least by the fact that this family comes not from Switzerland but from suburbia. They seem to have plenty of food and water out there on their atoll, but they are going to bore themselves to death in a month or so-and the viewer with them. Richard Schickel
...more bad scenes than a B movie, and finally finished in divorce 14 months ago. Now Elizabeth Taylor, 43, and Richard Burton, 49, appear strong enough for a second try. "This is not a trial reconciliation, it is permanent," proclaimed Pressagent John Springer of his clients, who met in Switzerland last week following Taylor's six-month tour in Russia for the filming of The Bluebird. With Taylor apparently having parked her current beau, Used Car Dealer Harry Wynberg, she and Burton have planned a trip to Israel to test their reborn romance. For the time being the couple...
John Brennan's career at Ford Motor Co. seemed to be a classic American success story. In 31 years with the automaker, Brennan, now 56, rose from unskilled laborer through a variety of sales and administrative posts to chairman of Ford of Switzerland. His jobs involved attendance at endless rounds of lunches and social affairs, most of them bibulous. Consuming more and more liquor on the way up, Brennan became an alcoholic, subject to recurrent blackouts. Finally, five years ago, he took early retirement from Ford. Now he is suing the company for $1.3 million, contending that...
...representing Ford. Later, he maintained liaison for Ford at the United Nations, where he put in hours at the delegates' bar, "followed by long martini lunches." Brennan was promoted to higher posts in The Netherlands -which involved more social drinking -Austria, where he started drinking alone, and finally Switzerland. When he at last sought help, Brennan says, he was met in a Zurich hotel room by higher Ford officials who persuaded him-"over a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label"-to take early retirement...
...assailing floating rates partly on the argument that they have not, as promised, ended speculative swings in world currency markets. Instead, currency fluctuations have intensified (see chart) and losses as the result of miscalculations have grown larger. Banks such as Banque de Bruxelles, Lloyds, the Union Bank of Switzerland and the now defunct Franklin National in the U.S. lost heavily last year by guessing wrong about which way-or how far -rates would float. So did some corporations that have tried to hedge against fluctuations by contracting to buy and sell currencies at a future date: ITT lost $48 million...