Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is little doubt that Britain's tax structure has discouraged skilled workers from boosting their earnings by overtime, penalized executives, and driven high-paid artists out of the country -Noel Coward to Switzerland, the Rolling Stones to France, and Peter Sellers to Ireland. While launching the tax reforms, the Conservatives are also taking some painful steps toward making social services more selective. This week the government is ending cheap welfare milk to expectant mothers and preschool children. Increases in school meal prices, prescription fees in the National Health Service, dental charges, fares on the nationalized railways and rents...
Died. Martin Bodmer, 71, Swiss banker and collector of rare books and manuscripts; of peritonitis; in Geneva, Switzerland. Bodmer accumulated more than 100,000 items in his "Bibliotheca Bodmeriana," including one of three copies of the Gutenberg Bible in private collection. His greatest coup was his 1952 acquisition of 73 folios and quartos of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The price was more than...
Harvard's All-American Joe Cavanagh has rejected an opportunity to fly to Bern, Switzerland and compete with the United States amateur team in the 1971 world ice hockey championships. "I've got too much unfinished school business hanging over my head." Cavanagh said yesterday...
Occupying only 62 square miles in the mountains between Austria and Switzerland, Liechtenstein has few but varied claims to fame. It is ruled by a prince from one of Europe's oldest royal families and is the world's second largest producer of false teeth (after the U.S.). It has no currency of its own, nor does it have soldiers, unemployment, slums or airports. Last week's vote left Liechtenstein another distinction: it is the only European country without female suffrage, leaving it in the same category as Jordan, Kuwait, Northern Nigeria, Yemen and Saudi Arabia (where...
...Elizabeth Taylor's crash program for getting her amplitude into shape for hot pants is said to have included a regimen of grapefruit juice, steak and vitamin B. The new, attenuated Taylor left London last week with Husband Richard Burton for a holiday in Switzerland and the U.S. Burton, who is taking a percentage rather than a salary for his soon to be released film Villain, then plans to begin "hovering," as he puts it, "over the box office return like a Welsh bird of prey...