Word: vevey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MONTREUX-VEVEY FESTIVAL (Aug. 29-Oct. 5) offers a varied but traditional program, including Mozart by Yehudi Menuhin's Festival Orchestra, Bach played on the organ by Munich's Karl Richter, Corelli and Vivaldi by I Musici di Roma, and even a night of Indian music with Sitarist Debabrata Chaudhury and Tabla Virtuoso Sitaram. The highlight of the festival will take place on Sept. 17, when the Orchestre de la Radio Suisse Italienne will present a concert of Mozart and Haydn atop 10,000-ft.-high Diablerets Glacier...
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). National Skydiving Championship, Tucson, Ariz.; Carting Championship, Vevey, Switzerland; International Surfing Championship, Makaha Beach, Hawaii...
...music at Yale until 1953, when he returned to Europe and settled down in Zurich. He was a short, round little man of robust health until circulatory ailments began to plague him in his declining years. Hindemith died at 68, following four swift strokes, and was buried near Vevey on Lake Geneva. Only a few close friends were at his graveside...
Switzerland's powerful firm of Nestlé Alimentana last week launched another carefully planned assault on European palates and pocketbooks. From Nestlé's modernistic Alpine redoubt in the quiet town of Vevey came word that the company had put together a handful of small Austrian, German and Scandinavian firms that it has quietly bought up over the past two years, and set up a frozen food subsidiary called Findus International. Nestlé's market researchers have discovered that the average American consumes 48 lbs. of frozen food a year, the average European less than three. Nestl...
...Decent Reticence. Since 1875, when a group of his farsighted neighbors bought up the small Vevey factory in which Henri Nestlé had been producing milk pap for babies, Nestlé has consistently been characterized by a rare combination of imaginative salesmanship and financial caution. With uninhibited confidence, Nestlé has made a success of peddling canned milk in dairy-rich Denmark and instant coffee in Brazil. Most of the company's earnings are poured back into expansion: its 70,000 shareholders, many of them Swiss farmers, get only a 1.2% annual dividend and equally meager information on Nestl...