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While shareholder resolutions have challenged American infant formula companies, such as Bristol-Myers and Abbott, Nestle, which is the world's largest producer of formula, is an international corporation based in Switzerland and does not sell stock in America...
...also reflected the wish of Nobel, who specified that the recipient be "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." The first winners were Switzerland's Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the International Red Cross and originator of the Gene va Convention, and France's Frederic Passy, a noted pacifist who convened the first International Peace Congress in Paris in 1889. The first female recipient (in 1905) was Austrian Baroness Bertha von Suttner...
...like a summons home for the 13-year veteran of Time Inc. Son of one of Poland's most distinguished poets, Wierzynski was born in Warsaw only 2½ months before the Germans invaded. Though he left his homeland in 1946 for Switzerland and, seven years later, the United States, he has returned to Poland often, and family members proved to be good sources on this particular story. "Before leaving Washington," recalls Wierzynski, "I debriefed my mother, who had met the then Bishop Wojtyla several times while my parents lived in Rome." Later, in Warsaw, Wierzynski sought...
...speculation. Nor is it only a poor man's game. Executive Vice President Otto E. Roethenmund recalls one customer who bought between $50,000 and $100,000 worth of Swiss franc checks early in the summer - candidly telling the staff that he had no intention of going to Switzerland. Says Roethenmund: "To my knowledge the gentleman still owns them, so he has an appreciation...
Last week Sweden's Karolinska Institute underlined the importance of restriction enzymes by awarding the Nobel Prize for Medicine, this year worth $165,000, to a trio of pioneers in the field. The three, all microbiologists: Werner Arber, of the University of Basel in Switzerland, and Drs. Hamilton O. Smith and Daniel Nathans, Americans, both of Johns Hopkins University...