Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stoppard puts in the mouths of Lenin and his sentimental wife, Krupskaya. The one diplomatic assignment Carr receives, which he first discovers once Lenin's train is safely on its way to the Finland Station, is to make sure, at all costs, that the Russian leader does not leave Switzerland...
Died. Edna Best, 74, popular British-born stage, film and television actress perhaps best known for her deft portrayal of British comedic heroines, but equally at ease in dramatic roles; in Geneva, Switzerland...
...compensated by the life of a diplomat: a few years here, a few years there, never staying in one place long enough to grow restless or attached to the surface of things. His three sons--Scobie, Matthew, and Quentin--grow up in snatches, in Kuwait, London, Athens, Switzerland. Each time Laura looks again at them she is awed by the opaque process through which they are being transformed from children who were once extensions of herself, into other, opaque human beings. As a successful family, in the end the Richardsons' relationship is that of old friends...
...Harvard police officer who was captain of Northeastern's undefeated 1972 crew. Peter Huntsman '74 promises to improve the Radcliffe lightweight prospects. Huntsman, a member of last year's intercollegiate champion Harvard lightweights, earned a bronze medal in the U.S. lightweight straight four at the World Championships in Switzerland last summer...
...York's Franklin National Bank has reported losses of $83 million, resulting largely from currency trading. In Germany, the big Bankhaus I.D. Herstatt dropped so much cash that it went under; it was followed in quick succession by four smaller banks. Even the staid Union Bank of Switzerland has reportedly had to cover shortages of $50 million lost playing currency roulette...