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...Kitzbühel, Austria. It has been less than two weeks since Canadian Downhill Racer Dave Irwin spun out of control off the steep course in Wengen, Switzerland, slamming into the hillside at 60 m.p.h., cracking a rib and suffering a severe brain concussion. Despite the injuries and a steady downpour, though, Irwin has been working out here. "I took a couple of free runs today," he says. "Straight down, nonstop. " He will be back out every day from now on. "There's nothing a doctor can do for me," he says. "The cracked rib still hurts a little...
...mirror. If they can't maintain it without twitching, Xylocaine, an anesthetic ointment, should be applied to the face before important meetings. It is all reminiscent of former Adman Shepherd Mead's 1952 book, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Mead, now living in Switzerland, says, "I wonder if they'll make a musical out of Michael's book...
...been kidnaped was flashed to Rabat by Ahmed Dlimi, Oufkir's deputy for intelligence operations, who had surreptitiously entered France in order to supervise the first stage of "Operation Ben Barka." Oufkir immediately went to France; his cover story for leaving Rabat was that he intended to visit Switzerland, where his children were in school...
...prisoner. Then one of them said: "Let's finish this comedy. You were sentenced to death in Morocco. Now you're going to get it." At that a shot rang out and Ben Barka fell dying. He was hastily buried at the villa. Afterward, Oufkir flew to Switzerland for his family visit and the other officials returned by roundabout routes to Morocco. According to TIME'S sources, two of the agents present at the murder returned to France and supervised the reburial of Ben Barka's corpse...
Among Europe's smaller countries, the pattern is decidedly mixed. Belgium and The Netherlands are still preoccupied with combatting their high rates of inflation. Switzerland has shipped home 100,000 foreign workers to stave off unemployment among citizens, but its recovery is dependent on the renewed health of its big trading partners. Sweden, which long seemed immune to recession, has started on a slide that is expected to result in zero growth this year. By contrast, Denmark achieved modest expansion during 1975, and Norway is being buoyed by prospects of soon becoming a sizable oil producer. The Norwegian economy...