Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unprecedented step of appointing three international financial experts to examine the dealings between the Vatican Bank and the Banco Ambrosiano. They were Joseph Brennan, 71, chairman of the executive committee of New York City's Emigrant Savings Bank; Phillippe de Week, former president of the Union Bank of Switzerland; and Carlo Cerutti, vice president of the Italian national telecommunications holding company. The appointment of the committee is the Vatican equivalent of naming a special prosecutor in the case, and it marked the first time that the Roman Catholic Church had ever opened up the books of the Holy...
...otherwise normal (I think!) young married woman except I can't seem to get enough chocolate. I blow the housekeeping money on Godiva chocolate strawberry creams. I count the minutes till the weekly shipment of Teuscher champagne truffles arrives from Switzerland. I hide Tobler Extra-Bitter sweet around the house. Hershey's Kisses mean more to me than Harry's (he's my hubby). Sometimes I even dream Harry has been dipped in milk chocolate. When I can't get chocolate, I sweat and shake. Am I an ADDICT? Is there anything...
...March and October, a nine-day Chocolate Lover's Tour of Switzerland whisks aficionados around such top chocolatiers as Lindt, Suchard, Nestlé and Tobler. Cost: $1,600, chocolates and one cathedral included...
...suggests that he join the party, and he does. A major in the SS and an old World War I buddy (Pip Miller) suggests that he join the Nazi officer elite corps and he does. As a member of the SS he could secure the tickets to Switzerland for which Maurice pleads, but he is, by now, too self-intimidated...
DIVORCED. David Frost, 43, peripatetic, sometimes abrasive British TV interviewer-producer; and Lynne Frederick, 28, actress and widow of Peter Sellers, who married her old flame. Frost, six months after the actor's death; after 17 months of marriage, no children; in Switzerland...