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DIED. James Mason, 75, suave Svengali of British and Hollywood films for a half-century; of a heart attack; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Mason took a Cambridge architecture degree but was soon displaying his haunted good looks and claret baritone on the London stage and screen. In scores of romantic melodramas, from The Seventh Veil (1945) to The Deadly Affair (1967), he polished his image as the ruthless lover. Behind his sophisticated sadism there was often the suggestion of a dark past and a doomed future, shrouding such troubled protagonists as the Irish fugitive in Odd Man Out (1946), Rommel...
...Rome. As recently as last May, Wilson called FBI Director William Webster to ask about the status of U.S. interest in the case. Wilson was also sternly warned by the State Department in December 1983 to avoid involvement in the case of Commodities Trader Marc Rich, who fled to Switzerland after being indicted in one of the biggest tax-fraud cases in U.S. history. Yet shortly after, Wilson met with a Swiss official on Rich's behalf...
...helped spur outlays for new plant and equipment, which are expected to grow by 4.4% this year and 5.7% in 1985, according to European Community calculations. Six months ago, Britain led the recovery, followed by West Germany. But now other countries are joining the trend-The Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. Even France and Italy, which stayed in recession longest, are showing symptoms of growth...
After graduating from Buenos Aires' Union Theological Seminary in 1950, he studied with renowned Protestant Theologian Karl Barth in Basel, Switzerland. Castro, married and the father of two children, has served as a pastor in Uruguay and Bolivia, and has held several administrative posts, including the presidency of Uruguay's Evangelical Methodist Church. In 1973 he moved to Geneva to become director of the W.C.C.'s Commission on World Mission and Evangelism. He left that post last year to work on a doctorate...
...common fragment's identification--discovered through an international effort concentrated in the United States and Switzerland "shows that we are a lot closer to insects than we think, although this may offend some people, said William M. Gelbart, professor of Biology...