Word: zurich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accommodations in Europe is becoming such a profitable investment that U.S. money built $30 million worth of hotels last year in Amsterdam alone. Hotel rooms in most price categories are very tight in Athens, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dubrovnik, Geneva, Helsinki, London, Moscow, Prague, Salzburg, Stockholm, Vienna, Warsaw and Zurich. In almost every other top city, they are just plain tight. Prices have risen about 10% since last year. A double room with bath in a good hotel ranges from a low of $7 in Lisbon and $10 in Munich to a top of $48 in Rome, $50 in London...
When Solzhenitsyn learned that a copy of the novel had made its way to the West, he got in touch with his Zurich lawyer, Fritz Heeb. He wanted to avoid what had happened to his other books: Western publishers scrambled to print competing editions, often in execrable translations. To establish copyright in Solzhenitsyn's name in France, Heeb quietly authorized the small YMCA Press (so named because it was founded by a member of the association, Dr. John Mott, in 1921) to publish August 1914 in Russian...
...duty as a younger scion in the U.S. Army during World War I infects him with a fondness for fascism. After the war, under the gullible noses of the family's financial advisers, he transfers huge sums of money to Europe. Then, poof! . . . he disappears, to reappear in Zurich as surgically deformed Heinrich Kroeger, intimate of the German high command, the center of an international backer's dozen of tycoons who are underwriting Hitler. U.S. intelligence, with help from his abandoned wife and widowed mother, pursues Scarlatti through the capitals of the world, encountering murder, madness and megalomania...
...Hussein's army and the Palestinian guerrillas was petering out, the last six hostages (of 54) had already been released by the fedayeen. In exchange, the R.A.F. Comet landed in Munich to pick up three fedayeen who had been held by the West Germans. Then it stopped in Zurich for three who had been in Swiss custody. Its passenger list complete, the British plane delivered all seven to Cairo...
...issue more stock and give the Austrian government a 9% share, as well as several seats on a new board of directors. Planes from both countries would be maintained in Austria, where labor is cheaper than in Switzerland. Pilots would be trained on Swissair's flight simulator in Zurich. Sales offices and planes of both lines would bear a single name, possibly "Swissair-Austrian Airlines," but aircraft from each country would still be distinguished by a national emblem on the tails...