Word: switzerland
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Into this tradition was born Robert James Fischer. His father was a physicist from Berlin, his mother a nurse born in Switzerland and raised in the U.S. They were divorced when Bobby was two. When his mother went to work, Bobby was left in the care of his older sister Joan. She kept him amused by playing board games with him in their three-room walk-up apartment in Brooklyn. When Monopoly and Parcheesi palled, Joan bought a cheap plastic chess set at the local candy store. She was eleven at the time and Bobby was six, and together they...
...something new every minute, and yet I think it's criminal to spend $6,000 a month on clothes, as I used to do. With my sewing, I only spend about $500 a month." One rich Chicago woman recently bought three yards of hand-embroidered organdy imported from Switzerland for $160 a yard. She is making herself a $480 evening dress, but it might have cost $1,000 in one of the designer shops at Marshall Field or Saks...
...SWITZERLAND. Since last month nonresident foreigners have been banned from buying Swiss real estate or securities. Just to keep an account of more than 50,000 Swiss francs ($13,325) in one of Switzerland's famed banks, they must pay the equivalent of 8% interest annually to the bank...
...gamble, to be sure, and if the U. S. entry doesn't win a medal at Munich there will be criticism of this new concept and of Parker's selection of oarsmen. The first test will come later this month, when the crew goes to Lucerne. Switzerland for a regatta that will include some of Europe's best eights. A victory there could presage a medal at Munich, and vindication for Parker. Harvard's alumni Olympians and a novel concept in American rowing
...infancy, be comes more powerful. The danger in continuing to delay basic reforms is that both sides will keep on meeting each mini-crisis by tacking on still more restrictions on the international movement of capital, ultimately damaging world trade, tourism and investment. Last week West Germany, Switzerland and Japan imposed new restrictions on investments or bank deposits by foreigners in their countries, thus hoping to limit inflationary increases in their domestic money supplies. Should that pattern continue, by the time nations finally agree to start looking for lasting solutions, they may be facing each other across dangerously high barriers...