Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Basel, Switzerland, the World Zionist Congress elects Theodore Herzl as president and declares its aim: "to create for Jewish people a home in Palestine...
...blinding snowstorm, the four-engine Vanguard turboprop locked onto the approach system at Basel-Mulhouse Airport and received permission to land. Inside Invicta International Airlines' flight "Oscar Papa" were 138 passengers, most of them housewives from neighboring towns in southern England on a package "shopping tour" to Switzerland. They were singing and chatting when they received routine orders to fasten their seat belts and were told: "We will be landing at Basel Airport within ten minutes." Oscar Papa never made...
...those who take that route, gaining admittance to a good school may be a problem. For a start, many foreign schools simply will not accept Americans. In fact, laws in The Netherlands and Switzerland restrict or deny admission to most foreign students. British medical schools give priority to Britons, and Canada's world-renowned McGill University School of Medicine takes only a handful of well-qualified Americans annually. But there are several schools that do welcome U.S. medical students-if they can master the local language. The Belgian universities at Brussels and Louvain have a total of more than...
Died. Herbert Graf, 69, scholarly, soft-spoken stage director of New York's Metropolitan Opera (1936-60), whose consistently successful productions in the U.S. and Europe made him one of the opera world's most sought-after regisseurs; of cancer; in Geneva, Switzerland...
Collectors often show a frank indifference to the origins of their pots and bronzes. Said an official of the antiquities museum in Basel, Switzerland: "It's public knowledge that 90% of the certificates of origin accompanying such works of art are totally unreliable. Most certificates are manipulated. The Italians can raise a ruckus, as in the case of the Metropolitan vase. But if they cannot prove anything, their claims are worthless. Unless the Italian authorities can come up with something like a photograph showing a work of art in an identifiable Etruscan tomb, they don't have...