Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cast was a familiar one to South Vietnamese: a Cabinet minister who raked in handsome bribes and payoffs, and his wife, who made occasional trips to Switzerland to deposit the money...
Died. Fritz Glarner, 73, Swiss-born artist whose "relational painting" derived from the style of Piet Mondrian; of a stroke; in Locarno, Switzerland. A disciple of Mondrian in Paris during the '20s, Glarner moved to the U.S. in 1936 and set about developing his own identity as a painter and muralist. Though he retained the stark primary colors used by his mentor, Glarner skewed the Mondrian rectangles in an attempt to make his work seem less static. He spent three decades in the U.S., then returned to Switzerland six years ago after being critically injured on the liner Michelangelo...
Waltz figured that he could use his Philip Morris experience to advantage. "Traditionally," he says, "watchmaking has been a family business in Switzerland, and companies were beginning to lose ground to modern foreign enterprises. I had seen internationalization at work in the tobacco business, and I wanted to try the same thing in the production and marketing of watches...
...Rods. There is also disturbing evidence that the nuclear fuel rods in one kind of big atomic plant have bent, crushed or cracked during normal operations. (So have those in a comparable plant in Switzerland.) What makes this problem especially troublesome is the fact that the fuel rods are among the most thoroughly tested part of any nuclear plant. The damage therefore probably cannot be traced to the simplest explanation: shoddy workmanship. Instead, it may have a more serious, generic cause: the rods, designed for and proved in a previous generation of smaller reactors, may simply not stand the higher...
Eagleton won the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate in 1968, running against the incumbent. Edward B. Long, and True Daeis, ambassador to Switzerland in the Kennedy Administration. He won the November election by a 30,000 vote margin while the national Democratic ticket lost the state by 30,000 votes...