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...general rule, the more developed a country is, the more efficient are its methods of collecting taxes. Artful citizens of such nations frequently look for tax havens abroad. West German actors, for instance, often incorporate themselves in Switzerland, where the top tax rate is 35%, v. 53% at home (a loophole that the German government is trying to close by court action and a new tax treaty signed last year...
...help make the trip even more rewarding, Mrs. Hadley has updated and supplemented the original version of her guide, published in 1963. Among the new findings, for example, are department stores in Switzerland that offer nurseries where a mother can leave the children while she shops. A typical Hadley tidbit: "Your 5-10s might prefer the whoop-de-doo Jelmoli's [in Zurich]," which offers a snack, a run in a model train, a marionette show, a carrousel ride. She has also discovered that there are several new French hotels where children can be left on their...
...travel-either taking the road to Rome or making the shorter trip into the English countryside, with painting kit. Oil paint in tubes made Impressionism possible, but that sort of packaging did not exist in the 18th century. Lugging oils through the vales of Kent or the gorges of Switzerland was messy, and watercolor-carried dry, in little pans-was the solution. The sheer convenience of watercolor-and its appeal to amateur and professional alike-was neatly expressed by Paul Sandby's tranquil view of Rosslyn Castle, North Berwick, with an aristocratic-looking lady on the riverbank painting with...
From time to time Duffy escapes from her book-strewn office to interview an author. She visited Vladimir Nabokov in Switzerland ("warm but very formal-we met at meals"); Saul Bellow in Chicago ("difficult, a very private man who doesn't like to talk about himself"); Mary McCarthy in Paris ("vibrant and intuitive, she doesn't come on as a bluestocking"). Duffy finds that "most serious writers are self-conscious and reticent. They aren't used to being interviewed, and they're wary." Authors of lesser stature are more talkative. Erich Segal (Love Story) met Duffy...
...staff of 55 workers. The first trial watches lost a minute and a half each day. Today the factory employs 3,600 people who turn out 2.4 million watches a year, which lose, I was told, less than 30 seconds a day. Although some lathes are imported from Switzerland, most of the delicate watchmaking tools are now made in China...