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...European Union's constitution [May 30]: I wonder how many citizens would vote in favor of the constitution of their own country if they were asked to. Is it legitimate to ask people to vote on something the consequences of which they don't understand? Ilja Feldstein Lutry, Switzerland...
...parachute missions behind enemy lines in World War II as well as great wealth and serious conflicts with the Federal Government. Born to a family of bankers and lawyers on Oct. 8, 1905, in a part of Transylvania that now belongs to Rumania, Deak was educated in Hungary, Austria, Switzerland and France and became fluent in five languages. After taking a job with a foreign exchange brokerage firm in New York City in 1939, he joined the U.S. Army as a paratrooper and later became a senior intelligence officer in the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner...
...years off their faces. Next month Barnard, 63, will visit Wall Street to tell investors about his new line of skin-care products, called Glycel, which promises to help erase wrinkles through a scientific process. Barnard and a team of biologists developed the formula at an institute in Basel, Switzerland. Barnard's business partner is a former banker who now owns La Prairie, a Swiss clinic where youth formulas were tried out by the likes of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle...
...books and editor of the National Review, has found a new object for his techno-literary affections. Buckley has shifted his allegiance to word processors, demonstrating his loyalty by accumulating eight of the machines and scattering them among his offices in New York City, Connecticut and Rougemont, Switzerland. "I don't compose anything on a typewriter if I can help it," says the irrepressible author. "Now I do all my editing on the screen...
...Kenner introduced him to a vintage Heathkit/ Zenith model Z-89 computer. The next month Buckley purchased his first system: a secondhand Z-89 with a Diablo printer and a copy of the pioneering Pie word processing program. Buckley took the gear along on his annual winter pilgrimage to Switzerland where, guided by 16 pages of instructions prepared by Kenner, he turned out in only five weeks his 20th book, Overdrive (Doubleday...