Word: switzerland
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...Switzerland, where target shooting is almost a national pastime, nobody needs to carry a pistol to bolster his ego. Members of the N.R.A., please grow...
...wants to boost the Pentagon's budget from the $171.2 billion allocated by the Carter Administration this year to $226.3 billion in fiscal year 1982. That amount is twice as much as Saudi Arabia earned from crude oil exports last year and twice the gross national product of Switzerland. Moreover by 1986 Reagan wants to increase the defense budget to a staggering $374.3 billion, or more than double this year's level...
Mahre, 23, went into the last race of the season, a giant slalom at Laax, Switzerland, needing a third-place finish or better to edge out the great Swedish slalom and giant-slalom specialist Ingemar Stenmark in the winter-long Cup competition. At the end of the two giant-slalom runs at Laax, Mahre had a combined time of 2 min. 40.05 sec. That put him in second place for the day behind Alexander Zhirov, a rising Soviet star, who came in at 2 min. 39.80 sec. Stenmark was third, at 2 min. 40.24 sec. But Mahre's finish...
DIED. Peter H. Dominick, 65, Colorado Republican who spent two years in the U.S. House of Representatives and twelve years in the Senate and who served in 1975 as the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland; of a heart attack; in Hobe Sound, Fla. A staunch conservative and anti-Communist who was proud of his efforts to preserve the American wilderness, the Yale-educated Dominick was elected to the House in 1960 and to the Senate two years later, retaining his seat until he was defeated in 1974 by Democrat Gary Hart. Dominick was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland the next year...
...stripe are the targets for the Spectator's salvos; an article entitled "Ugly Women" shows that in its defense of the good, pure and tradition, the magazine will without hesitation call in the heavy artillery. "Ugly Women," penned by Taki Theodoracopulos, who "lives immodestly in London, New York and Switzerland," starts from the premise that American women are the ugliest in the world. "My opinion is based on scientific research, not emotions," our analyst contends. His research ("400 million years of field experiments") has yielded the following result: "a feminine woman possesses qualities which make her as different from...