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Christmas Cards. The anti-Israel measures, however, have caused a substantial backlash. Switzerland has cut its UNESCO contribution by 10%, and France threatens to follow suit; the U.S. is about to suspend its $19.5 million contribution to UNESCO's $77.9 million 1975 budget. Israel has announced it is suspending payment of its dues. Many Americans are refusing to buy UNICEF Christmas cards this year, even though the U.N.'s Children's Fund has nothing to do with UNESCO...
Actually, most ex-Kings and claimants to nonexistent thrones live better than their ex-subjects. Spain and Portugal seem to be the favorite spots of exile, with Switzerland a close third. Albania's Leka I, Bulgaria's Simeon II and Russia's Grand Duke Vladimir-who presumably would be enthroned as Czar Vladimir III if the Romanovs were ever restored to power-live in Spain. Italy's Umberto II, Spain's Don Juan and Portugal's own Duarte, Duke of Braganza reside in Portugal. In Switzerland, there are Michael of Rumania and Ahmed-Fuad...
...Galbraith, Switzerland and bonhomie...
...aesthetic testament of the Bauhaus, nevertheless, is still with us. It has impregnated our whole sense of design. Moreover, it remains embodied in the work of several Bauhaus students who have turned out to be major artists. One of these is Max Bill, who was born in Switzerland and spent two years at the Dessau Bauhaus before returning to Zurich...
...other areas of his activity." Bill has practiced as an architect; he has designed all manner of manufactured objects, from samovars to wall clocks; he was responsible for the shape of one the most elegantly pure pre-stressed-concrete structures in the world, the Lavina-Tobel bridge in Switzerland (1966-67). In design, Bill has been an acknowledged rationalizing force. So has he been in art -but mainly in Europe because, as Wood suggests, "his conscious effort to undertake all his activities within a social context, while having deep roots in the history of 20th century European art, is fundamentally...