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...weeks ago, our Modern Living section ran a story called "Cruising: The Good Life Afloat" and described, among others, the husky cruisers built by a California firm, Westsail Corp. Almost immediately calls began to come into Westsail's headquarters from as far away as Switzerland and Brazil at the rate of 50 to 60 per day, many from people who had never owned a boat before. Orders are currently flowing into Westsail at the rate of $600,000 per week, a fourfold increase since the story appeared...
...United States in 1937, he was a Cabinet Minister in no less than 18 of his country's governments between 1925 and 1939. Charges against Bonnet of collaborating with the Nazis as a member of the Vichy government were dropped in 1949. He returned from exile in Switzerland to serve for another twelve years in the National Assembly...
...Costa Rica was the country I least expected to become a pirate's sanctuary. Costa Ricans have always prided themselves on calling their country "the Switzerland of Latin America" because of their government's political integrity...
...Busch-Reisinger continues its show on the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler for a few days more. Hodler, although respected widely in Switzerland and Germany during his lifetime has been little appreciated here, and on previous stops in New York and Berkeley the show gained attention for Holder as a major new point of perspective in viewing early modernist art. The sketches are the most interesting thing in the show, and most of the larger works appear stiff and stilted by comparison. The landscapes are significant for prefiguring German Expressionist works...
...conservatory will be in Switzerland, but not for a while. Leandro's parents (Mother Dora is a Swiss-born interior decorator) prefer to keep him in the Fuengirola elementary school (where his passion is arithmetic), and limit his concertizing to six weeks a year. The elder Aconchas think the boy needs that much exposure to obtain, says Roberto, "the psychological advantage of being used to an audience." Above all, they want to avoid exhibiting Leandro as a public curiosity. But, says Roberto, "he enjoys playing so much that he regards the concerts as a sort of holiday treat...