Word: switzerland
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...fuss about? Europeans want dollar devaluation for two reasons. First, it would cushion the shock of currency adjustments by making the gold in their official reserves worth more, even as their dollar holdings lose part of their value. Among the main gainers would be France and Switzerland, which try to keep more than 60% of their reserves in gold. More important, dollar devaluation would constitute a symbolic recognition by Washington that the dollar's troubles are largely the result of U.S. inflation and balance of payments deficits, rather than somehow the fault of the strong-currency nations...
...Really a Group of Eleven, because representatives of Switzerland, which is not formally a member, sit in as "observers." Full members are Belgium, Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Sweden, the U.S. and West Germany...
...matter how committed the Swiss are to restoring the beauty and purity of their waters, there is a limit to what they can accomplish by themselves. Geneva, Lugano and many other lakes lie on Switzerland's borders with France and Italy, which have so far shown little concern about the wastes they spew into the mountain waters...
Obviously, international migrations are not a likely prospect, but even within any one nation, crowding is generally a result of the drift from rural areas to the city. Taken as a whole, the U.S. still has only 58 people per sq. mi.-scarcely one-sixth the density of Switzerland, which does not seem terribly crowded. But about 70% of all Americans have jammed together onto 2% of the land, while half of the nation's counties lost population during the past decade...
Died. Dr. Paul Niehans, 88, the Swiss surgeon who won both reputation and fortune by trying to lead his celebrity patients to the fountain of youth; in Montreux, Switzerland. In 1931 Niehans developed his so-called "cellular therapy," in which particles of lamb embryos were injected into the patient; he claimed that the treatment would retard the aging process, and cure almost everything from homosexuality to heart disease. Though viewed with suspicion by many fellow doctors, Niehans counted among his grateful patients Pope Pius XII and Gloria Swanson...