Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cutter who left a Ford Motor vice-presidency to become Zenith's president last May. Together, Wright and Nevin sold off marginally profitable lines in order to concentrate on consumer electronics. Last-week Wright added to that line by acquiring the U.S. distributor of electronic watches made by Switzerland's Movado, a firm that Zenith already controls...
...Could you not spare Jack Anderson [April 3] for a while and send him over to Switzerland? I am sure he would love it here! A little spring cleaning may do wonders...
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...help make the trip even more rewarding, Mrs. Hadley has updated and supplemented the original version of her guide, published in 1963. Among the new findings, for example, are department stores in Switzerland that offer nurseries where a mother can leave the children while she shops. A typical Hadley tidbit: "Your 5-10s might prefer the whoop-de-doo Jelmoli's [in Zurich]," which offers a snack, a run in a model train, a marionette show, a carrousel ride. She has also discovered that there are several new French hotels where children can be left on their...
...travel-either taking the road to Rome or making the shorter trip into the English countryside, with painting kit. Oil paint in tubes made Impressionism possible, but that sort of packaging did not exist in the 18th century. Lugging oils through the vales of Kent or the gorges of Switzerland was messy, and watercolor-carried dry, in little pans-was the solution. The sheer convenience of watercolor-and its appeal to amateur and professional alike-was neatly expressed by Paul Sandby's tranquil view of Rosslyn Castle, North Berwick, with an aristocratic-looking lady on the riverbank painting with...