Word: switzerland
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...Nine states with a total population of approximately 200 million are unrepresented: the two Germanys, the two Koreas and the two Viet Nams, as well as Rhodesia, whose government has no international legal standing, and Switzerland, which chooses to stay out under its historic policy of absolute neutrality. As for the 14 million people of Taiwan, Peking claims to represent them-just as Taipei claimed somewhat fancifully to represent the more than 750 million people of the mainland...
...billion, of which $12 billion was held in dollars and a puny $697 million in gold. West Germany would also stand to suffer. At latest count, its reserves totaled $18.1 billion, of which $12 billion was in foreign exchange, mostly dollars, and only $4.4 billion in gold. Switzerland, too, would come out somewhat behind. By latest count, it has $3 billion in gold and almost $4 billion in dollars...
...great lawgivers of modern art. He was born just short of 100 years ago, at Utrecht in 1872; he died in New York in 1944. To mark his centenary, the Guggenheim Museum has assembled a retrospective which later goes to Bern's Kunstmuseum in Switzerland. The show is a reminder of what "high seriousness"-a quality notably absent from most recent art-can mean in the hands of a master...
Sweden is in one of its worst economic slumps since the 1930s. Switzerland's balance of payments is running a deficit for the first time in ten years. Of the major European powers, only Britain and France show signs of strong growth-around 5% each for the fiscal year ending mid-1972. Still, the U.K. expects unemployment by Christmas to reach a 30-year high of 1,000,000 (out of a labor force of about 25 million...
Divorced. Peter Ustinov, 50, author, raconteur and the only Briton ever to win two Academy Awards for acting (for Spartacus in 1960 and Topkapi in 1964); by Suzanne Cloutier, 44, a French Canadian onetime actress; after 17 years of marriage, three children; in Lausanne, Switzerland...