Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visualized myself as a world-famous author of 70 with a mane of wavy white hair. Today I am practically bald." This balding, world-famous author. Vladimir Nabokov, celebrated his 72nd birthday in Switzerland last week by working on a new novel that may be called Transparent Things. The new work, he explained to the New York Times, is being composed on his usual "scrambled index cards, which I gradually fill in and sort out, using up in the process more pencil sharpeners than pencils." Nabokov described his success at beating the biblical quota of 70 years as "a feat...
...members: Austria, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom...
Born. To James Roosevelt, 63, eldest son of F.D.R., a former U.S. Congressman and currently a business consultant in Switzerland, and his fourth wife, onetime British Schoolteacher Mary Winskill Roosevelt, 32: their first child (his seventh), a daughter; in Geneva. Name: Rebecca Mary...
...afraid that their Stateside customers might not like the idea of their doing business with the Chinese Communists. As a result, most of the deals made by U.S. subsidiaries so far have been concluded quietly. Representatives of U.S. firms use Chinese-speaking middlemen who operate primarily out of Austria, Switzerland, Britain, Australia and Japan. The middlemen bargain with officials of Chinese state enterprises, while the U.S. clients hide out in hotel rooms. The bargaining, as many impatient Americans have learned, is often long and drawn...
...first quarter alone it amounted to about $4 billion. Two weeks ago, rumors swept the Continent that several strong European currencies would be revalued upward, in effect devaluing the dollar. On the strength of those rumors, corporate treasurers and nimble speculators sold billions of dollars for other currencies in Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands and especially West Germany. Central banks quelled that speculative spree, mainly by buying all the dollars that were offered. But, like a stabbing pain that passes quickly, the minicrisis was a warning that the dollar faces more trouble...