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...shot and killed in a campaign fracas. At a pro-Pacheco rally, someone tossed a live but harmless green snake at the speaker, who pitched it back onto the heads of his listeners. Such political turmoil was once almost unknown in the little land that was frequently called the "Switzerland of South America" and was noted for its hospitality to political refugees...
...private, Sutherland is a mother (of a teen-age son) and a woman with a boisterous sense of humor. Less competitive than Sills, and hindered by a history of back ailments, she ranges out from her home in Switzerland on a schedule of engagements that is merely busy, not frenetic. Her career is directed, her voice guided, and many of her performances conducted by her husband...
...Nine states with a total population of approximately 200 million are unrepresented: the two Germanys, the two Koreas and the two Viet Nams, as well as Rhodesia, whose government has no international legal standing, and Switzerland, which chooses to stay out under its historic policy of absolute neutrality. As for the 14 million people of Taiwan, Peking claims to represent them-just as Taipei claimed somewhat fancifully to represent the more than 750 million people of the mainland...
...billion, of which $12 billion was held in dollars and a puny $697 million in gold. West Germany would also stand to suffer. At latest count, its reserves totaled $18.1 billion, of which $12 billion was in foreign exchange, mostly dollars, and only $4.4 billion in gold. Switzerland, too, would come out somewhat behind. By latest count, it has $3 billion in gold and almost $4 billion in dollars...
...great lawgivers of modern art. He was born just short of 100 years ago, at Utrecht in 1872; he died in New York in 1944. To mark his centenary, the Guggenheim Museum has assembled a retrospective which later goes to Bern's Kunstmuseum in Switzerland. The show is a reminder of what "high seriousness"-a quality notably absent from most recent art-can mean in the hands of a master...