Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work. Young brokers, bankers and boutiquers emigrate because old-country commerce is too tradition-bound, slow and unresponsive for them. Even for someone with influence, it can take a month to get a phone installed in England, and no one would ever call a broker on the weekend. "In Switzerland if you ask, 'Why?', they tell you, 'Because that's the way it is,' " says New York Art Dealer Bettina Sulzer Milliken, 36, daughter of a Swiss industrialist, who with her American husband runs a gallery in SoHo. "In America the answer is 'Because that's the way we like...
...Rolf Mengele told it in the Bunte story, the first time he met his father was on a skiing vacation in Switzerland in 1956, when the twelve-year-old boy stayed at a mountain hotel with an affable uncle called Helmut Gregor. Three years later, said Rolf, he discovered that "Uncle Helmut" was actually his father. As the two began to correspond, Rolf told Bunte, the fugitive showed himself to be paternal but far from penitent. "I can never hope that you will understand or sympathize with the course of my life," he wrote Rolf. "But I have...
...Customs officials found the garage of Millie McKee, a divorcee living in the San Francisco suburb of Redwood City, stuffed with high-tech gear. Charged with illegally exporting laser components and sophisticated electronics to Switzerland, where authorities believe it was transshipped to the Soviet Union, McKee was given a six-month work release sentence for making a false statement. She described the crime as "all technical violations," like driving 60 m.p.h. in 55 m.p.h. zones. "There's been little fear of heavy sentences. It's more often a slap on the wrist," says Robert McDiarmid, a Santa Clara County private...
...East bloc. Last month U.S. marshals arrested Marino Pradetto, 46, the Italian operator of a West German electronics firm who was in California for a trade fair, and charged him with illegal diversion of a powerful VAX II/780 mainframe computer to Czechoslovakia through San Jose, Haiti and Switzerland...
...dining room or parlor, for crying out loud, when a writer name of Donald E. Westlake gets us all together to give us the story line. For openers, we ain't in the Mohonk Mountain House no more; we're in something called the Hotel Kuckkuckuhr, in Switzerland, and it's 1938. Then Westlake shows us this black-and-white flick that's more black than white, which is to say I'm talking poor quality, of some dumpity guy, a real lard bucket, being bothered at the dinner table. The guy's name is Kurt Krauss...